St Cubert
Tablet – Faculty Petition & Plans (Kresen Kernow D/R 4/9 & D/R 47) V. Pinwill designer; 1926
At Kresen Kernow there are faculty plans and correspondence relating to a carved oak tablet designed and executed by Miss V. Pinwill. It registers the fact that the sanctuary roof was restored in memory of Charles Henry Hosken, vicar of Cubert from 1850 to 1895. Proposals for the restoration of the fifteenth-century roof by Edmund H. Sedding, as well as for the accompanying plaque, were put forward in May 1900 and a committee set up (Royal Cornwall Gazette, 1900). However, it was not until 1926 that a faculty was issued for the memorial tablet (Warner, 2022).
Most of the bosses in the restored roof appear to be relatively modern and may also have been replaced during the restoration (Cubert, 2015) and thus carved by Violet Pinwill.
Sources
Cubert (2015) The Parish Church of St Cubert. Church Tour Guide.
Kresen Kernow D/R 4/9 Faculty Petition. Cubert. Memorial Plaque.
Kresen Kernow D/R 47 Faculty Plans. Cubert. Memorial Plaque.
Royal Cornwall Gazette (1900) Proposed Memorial at Cubert Church. 10 May p. 5.
Warner, M. (2022) A Time to Build: Signposts to the Building, Restoration, Enhancement, and Maintenance of Cornwall’s Anglican Churches and Mission Rooms. Scyfa, Cornwall.