Nature's Offering There is, therefore, a touch of the symbolic
in the pre-eminence of this church's natural setting. Backed by substantial farm-buildings of grey granite, it looks down an arc of the riverine sand-flats decorated with the carved figures of curlews, cormorants, redshanks, herons and herring and lesser black-backed gulls. On both shores the woods descend in a hanging arras of leaves except where broken by a sheepwalk and an chard and the shelving churchyard itself. Religion, nature and husbandry here form a continuous "chain of being." With the exception of St. Just-in-Roseland, on'a lateral creek of the Carrick Roads, and R. S. Hawker's Morwenstow on the terrace of a cloven dingle facing the Atlantic in a mutual solitude, I know of no other churches irethe Duchy to compare with St. Winnow's in supremacy of .siting.
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