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St Corentine’s Church, Cury
St Corentine's Church, Cury is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Cury, Cornwall, England, UK. History The parish church is dedicated to Corentin of Quimper, St Corentin. The building is cruciform and of the Norman architecture, Norman period, but a north aisle was added in the 15th century. It was probably originally a manorial church of The Lizard, Winnianton but became a chapelry of Breage, Cornwall, Breage in the 13th century. The church was restored in 1874 but the restoration was carried out locally without the supervision of an architect. The work was superintended by the Reverend A H Cummings, who employed the village mason, carpenter, blacksmith and glazier. The north wall was taken down and rebuilt. The roof of the north aisle was repaired and boarded inside, and enriched with carved oak bosses. The roofs of the nave, chancel and Bochym aisle were re-constructed. The church was reseated and the windows were re-glazed with Cathedral glass. The exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cury
Cury () is a civil parishes in England, civil parish and village in southwest Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately four miles (6 km) south of Helston on The Lizard, The Lizard peninsula. The parish is named for Corentin of Quimper, St Corentin and is recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Chori''. Demographics and geography Cury is a rural parish with a population of 388 at the 2001 census. It is bounded to the north by Mawgan-in-Meneage parish, to the west by Gunwalloe parish, and to the south by Mullion, Cornwall, Mullion parish. Settlements include the Churchtown, Cornwall, church town, Cury; Cross Lanes, Cornwall, Cross Lanes; White Cross; and Nantithet. Cury lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Church history The St Corentine’s Church, Cury, parish church is dedicated to St Corentin. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive website provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. It was launched in November 2011. History The British Library's Newspapers section was based in Colindale in north London until 2013, and is now divided between the St Pancras and Boston Spa sites. The library has an almost complete collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840. This is partly because of the legal deposit legislation of 1869, which required newspapers to supply a copy of each edition of a newspaper to the library. London editions of national daily and Sunday newspapers are complete back to 1801. In total, the collection consists of 660,000 bound volumes and 370,000 reels of microfilm containing tens of millions of newspapers with 52,000 titles on 45 km of shelves. After the closure of Colindale in November 2013, access to the 750 million original printed pages was maintained via an automated and climate-controlled storage fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
