From the Ecclesiologist, February 1851, page 75.
S. Cuby, Kenwyn, near Truro.—This church has of late years been very much improved, and during the past year considerable restorations have been effected, as memorials of the late Reverend Prebendary Cornish, formerly the vicar. The whole church has been reseated with open benches of stained wood, but they are by far too high, and are carried on in a continuous block up to within a few feet of the sanctuary rails. A better faldstool of oak and a richly carved oak pulpit have been substituted in the place of very shabby ones. They bear the inscription, “In Memoriam Georgii Jacobi Cornish, Vicarii.” At the west end of the south aisle a small memorial window of two lights has been inserted. It is filled with stained glass, and bears the same inscription as the pulpit. It is Middle-Pointed. In each light is a “vesica” on a diapered ground, in one of which is a figure of our Lord teaching a congregation of men, and the inscription, “Pasce oves meos;” and in the other, our Lord teaching a band of little children, and the inscription “Pasce agnos meos.” The window is by Mr. Wailes, and is creditably executed. The western gallery has been taken away, and the tower opened into the church. The tower arch is a very good one. Outside the church, near the south porch, a beautiful cross, richly carved, has been erected to Mr. Cornish’s memory, and at the other end of the churchyard, over the spot where his remains where interred, are three coped coffins of stone, having a cross formye on each, and bearing the initials of Mr. Cornish and two of his daughters. A small upright cross is placed over the central one, and a border of granite with pinnacles surrounds the whole.
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