# Cury

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{{Short description|Village in Cornwall, England}}
{{Distinguish|Curry (disambiguation){{!}}Curry|Curie (disambiguation){{!}}Curie|Forme of cury}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{for|people with the surname|Cury (surname)}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country                  = England
|map_type                 = Cornwall
|coordinates              = {{coord|50.0467|-5.244|display=inline,title}}
|official_name            = Cury
|cornish_name             = Egloskuri
|population               = 388
|population_ref           = ([Civil Parish, 2001](/source/United_Kingdom_Census_2001))<br />  431  (2011 Census)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122561&c=Cury&d=16&e=62&g=6409952&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1488800920759&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=6 March 2017|publisher=Office for National Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>
|civil_parish             = Cury
|unitary_england          = [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall_Council)
|lieutenancy_england      = [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall)
|region                   = South West England
|constituency_westminster = [St Ives](/source/St_Ives_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
|post_town                = Helston
|postcode_district        = TR12
|postcode_area            = TR
|dial_code                = 01326
|os_grid_reference        = SW678213
|static_image_name        = File:Ancient cross in Cury churchyard Geograph-2238117-by-Rod-Allday.jpg
|static_image_caption     = The cross in the churchyard
}}

'''Cury''' ({{langx|kw|Egloskuri}}) is a [civil parish](/source/civil_parishes_in_England) and village in southwest [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall),  England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately four miles (6&nbsp;km) south of [Helston](/source/Helston) on [The Lizard peninsula](/source/The_Lizard). The parish is named for [St Corentin](/source/Corentin_of_Quimper) and is recorded in the [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book) as ''Chori''.

==Demographics and geography==
Cury is a rural parish with a population of 388 at the 2001 [census](/source/census).<ref name=GENUKI /> It is bounded to the north by [Mawgan-in-Meneage](/source/Mawgan-in-Meneage) parish, to the west by [Gunwalloe](/source/Gunwalloe) parish, and to the south by [Mullion](/source/Mullion%2C_Cornwall) parish. Settlements include the [church town](/source/Churchtown%2C_Cornwall), Cury; [Cross Lanes](/source/Cross_Lanes%2C_Cornwall); White Cross; and [Nantithet](/source/Nantithet).<ref>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-23148-7}}</ref> Cury lies within the [Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty](/source/Cornwall_Area_of_Outstanding_Natural_Beauty) (AONB).

==Church history==
thumb|The Church of St Corentin, Cury
The [parish church is dedicated to St Corentin](/source/St_Corentine%E2%80%99s_Church%2C_Cury).<ref name=GENUKI>[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/Cury/ GENUKI ''Cury'']; official website; retrieved May 2010</ref> The building is [cruciform](/source/cruciform) and of the [Norman period](/source/Norman_architecture), but a north aisle was added in the 15th century. It was probably originally a manorial church of [Winnianton](/source/The_Lizard), but became a chapelry of [Breage](/source/Breage%2C_Cornwall) in the 13th century.<ref>''Cornish Church Guide'' (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 83 (Earl Richard of Cornwall bestowed it in 1246)</ref><ref>Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall'', 2nd ed., revised by Enid Radcliffe. Penguin Books; pp. 61-62</ref>

There is a Cornish cross in the churchyard; it is probably the old churchyard cross but was found in a ditch nearby in 1849 and set up in its present position.<ref>Langdon, A. G. (1896) ''Old Cornish Crosses''. Truro: Joseph Pollard; p. 267-68</ref>

===Sandys Wason===
{{anchor|Sandys Wason}}From 1905 to 1920 the parishes of Cury and Gunwalloe were served by Father Sandys Wason as [perpetual curate](/source/perpetual_curate).<ref>Note: Leighton Sandys Wason (1867–1950); ordained a priest in 1898; served as a curate at Plaistow and Shoreditch. Among his publications is ''The Anathema Alphabet, or, Syllabus of Errors Condemned by the English Bishops Since 1840''; foreword by Tractarian; pub. c. 1919; by Society of SS. Peter and Paul</ref> Father Wason was an Anglo-Catholic and unpopular with some parishioners; he wrote poems such as "Town" ("I met a clergymanly man, Prostrated in the Strand, He sucked a brace of oranges, One orange in each hand" is the first verse).<ref>Cohen, J. M., ed. (1952) ''The Penguin Book of Comic and Curious Verse''. Harmondsworth: Penguin; pp. 199–202</ref> He is notable for the controversy aroused by his ministry due to his practice of liturgical borrowing from the Roman Catholic Church and other aspects of it.<ref>Butler-Gallie, F . ''A Field Guide to the English Clergy''; p. 11. London: Oneworld Publications, 2018 {{ISBN|9781786074416}}</ref> He held open air services by the sea at Gunwalloe Church Cove on All Souls' Day and All Saints' Day.<ref>Tricker, Roy (1994) ''"Mr Wason ... I Think"''. Leominster: Gracewing; illus. between pp. 78 & 79</ref> Though disciplined by successive bishops of Truro ([Charles Stubbs](/source/Charles_Stubbs) and [Winfrid Burrows](/source/Winfrid_Burrows)) he persisted in his ways until a group of his opponents ejected him from the parish by force.<ref>Brown, H. M.; 1976; ''A Century for Cornwall''; Truro: Blackford; pp. 66–67, 79–81</ref> Thereafter he moved to London and for a while owned a small publishing firm called Cope & Fenwick. His friend, the [Rev. Bernard Walke](/source/Bernard_Walke), wrote of him: "I regard him as not only the most original but one of the most rare personalities I have ever known ... [with] a nature too shy and at the same time too intolerant of the commonplace to meet with the world's approval."<ref>Walke, Bernard (2002) ''Twenty Years at St Hilary''. Mount Hawke: Truran, p. 229</ref>

thumb|right|250px|Cury in relation to neighbouring parishes

===United Free Methodist chapel===
A newly erected chapel was opened in May 1884 by the Rev. E. Boaden of [Harrogate](/source/Harrogate), ex-president of the denomination and a native of Cury.<ref>{{cite news |title=A Newly-Erected Chapel .... |work=The Cornishman |issue=304 |date=15 May 1884 |page=6}}</ref>

==Bochym==
In the early 18th century the ownership of Bochym passed to the Robinsons, following outbreaks of [smallpox](/source/smallpox) which killed the Bellott family; in 1711 Loveday Bellott, in 1717 her four sisters, and in 1719 the last survivor of the family, Bridget.<ref>{{cite news |title=Small-pox changed the ownership of Bochym. |work=The Cornishman |issue=433 |date=28 October 1886 |page=7}}</ref>

Stephen and [Richard Davey](/source/Richard_Davey_(MP)) were "adventurers" in the development of Cornish mines, during the boom period. They acquired an ancient manor house and estate at Bochym in Cury.<ref>{{cite thesis |chapter-url=https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10036/20012 |chapter=Chapter 5, Institutionalising Cornwall: The Role of a Social Elite |title=The reformulation of territorial identity: Cornwall in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries |year=2001 |first=Bernard |last=Deacon |type=PhD |publisher=Open University}}</ref><ref>[http://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/newscountry/article/258924/Literary_gem_in_Cornwall_for_sale.html ''Country Life'']{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}; June 2008: "Gentleman's Manor House in Cornwall for Sale"; Text: "Bochym Manor (rebuilt 1699) has a wealth of architectural details with a stunning drawing room in French Empire style with ornate wall panels and ceiling cornices and stained glass windows, a library with exposed beams and hand-carved Italian walnut linenfold panelling and Jacobean drawing room with very early plaster relief ceiling and English walnut panelling. In all, the Grade II* listed house has 10 bedrooms, seven reception rooms, a staff flat, Gothic farmhouse, 13 cottages, outbuildings, historic landscaped walled and water gardens, bluebell wood and trout river."</ref> Richard Davey's nephew, Joshua Sydney Davey (1842–1909), son of Stephen, inherited his estate at Bochym.<ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/630859 ''Bochym Manor House and Clock Tower'']; illustrated at this site</ref><ref>Note: [Cornwall Record Office](/source/Cornwall_Record_Office) holds archives and papers of the Davey Family for the period 1795 to 1908: Cornwall (Bochym in Cury, etc.) estate and mining business accounts and papers and miscellaneous Davey family diaries.</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
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* Tricker, Roy (1994) ''Mr Wason, I think''; with poems by the Reverend Sandys Wason. Leominster: Gracewing

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