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.[6]
Sandys Wason
From 1905 to 1920 the parishes of Cury and Gunwalloe were served by Father Sandys Wason as perpetual curate.[7] 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).[8] 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.[9] He held open air services by the sea at Gunwalloe Church Cove on All Souls' Day and All Saints' Day.[10] Though disciplined by successive bishops of Truro (Charles Stubbs and Winfrid Burrows) he persisted in his ways until a group of his opponents ejected him from the parish by force.[11] Thereafter he moved to London and for a while owned a small publishing firm called Cope and Fenwick. His friend, the Rev. 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."[12]
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, ex-president of the denomination and a native of Cury.[13]
Bochym
In the early 18th-century the ownership of Bochym passed to the Robinsons, following outbreaks of 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.[14]
Stephen and Richard Davey were "adventurers" in the development of Cornish mines, during the boom period. They acquired an ancient manor house and estate at Bochym in Cury.[15][16] Richard Davey's nephew, Joshua Sydney Davey (1842–1909), son of Stephen, inherited his estate at Bochym.[17][18]
^Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 83 (Earl Richard of Cornwall bestowed it in 1246)
^Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed., revised by Enid Radcliffe. Penguin Books; pp. 61-62
^Langdon, A. G. (1896) Old Cornish Crosses. Truro: Joseph Pollard; p. 267-68
^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
^Cohen, J. M., ed. (1952) The Penguin Book of Comic and Curious Verse. Harmondsworth: Penguin; pp. 199–202
^Butler-Gallie, F . A Field Guide to the English Clergy; p. 11. London: Oneworld Publications, 2018 ISBN9781786074416
^Tricker, Roy (1994) "Mr Wason ... I Think". Leominster: Gracewing; illus. between pp. 78 & 79
^Brown, H. M.; 1976; A Century for Cornwall; Truro: Blackford; pp. 66–67, 79–81
^Walke, Bernard (2002) Twenty Years at St Hilary. Mount Hawke: Truran, p. 229
^"A Newly-Erected Chapel ...". The Cornishman. No. 304. 15 May 1884. p. 6.
^"Small-pox changed the ownership of Bochym". The Cornishman. No. 433. 28 October 1886. p. 7.
^Country Life[permanent dead link]; 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."
^Note: 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.
