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Parish Church of:
Cubert
The church of St. Cuthbert, standing on an elevation, is
an edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting
of chancel, nave of four bays, transepts, south porch, and a
western tower with an octagonal upper stage and low spire,
and containing 3 bells; the tower and spire were struck by
lightning and considerably damaged on Monday, April 10,
1848, but were repaired in 1852, when the church as restored
under the direction of G.E. Street esq. R.A.; a memorial
window to Mrs Hosken of Carivick in this parish was erected
in 1880: there are monuments to Arthur Lawrence, ob. 1669,
and Humphrey Lawrence, ob. 1689, and modern memorials to the
family of Hosken and others: the church has 170 sittings.
The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year
1733; marriages 1734; in the parish register it is mentioned
that in the year 1564 St Cubert was visited by a pestilental
disease, of which seventy persons died in a few weeks.
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