Yesterday I described the journey to St Kew. We were going there on a mission! I have recently bought a delightful little book called “Cornish Curiosities” by Margaret Caine and Alan Gorton and aim to visit as many as we can. We started with a board in St James the Great Church in St Kew where there are Rules for Bell-ringers dating back to 1783. I love the words but even more I love the little drawings of the fat-bottomed bell-ringers. The whole Church and its Churchyard were fascinating, the church having been built in the 15th century on the site of a Chapel belonging to a monastery dating back to the 6th Century! It is well worth a visit should you ever be in the area. Click on any photo for more detail and the captions.
The board but sunlight masks the bell-ringers
The funny little bell-ringers
Looking towards the rood screen
The beautiful wagon roof with carved bosses and angels
One of the many carved angels
Banners
cCrved stone tomb marker
Window in one of the side Chapels
Detail of that window
Stocks kept in the Church
The rood screen from the altar
The door
Tomb stone to the Treffry Family family who lost four babies aged between 9 weeks and 1 year 24 weeks. The stone tells us the dates of their burials, 1795, 1798, 1804 and 1806 and the parents themselves, John in 1808 and Anne in 1809
Cornish crosses
Cornish Curiosities – the book that sent us off on this journey.
