Cubert
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- For the Futurama character, see Cubert Farnsworth.
Cubert civil parish and village in the Carrick district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Situated 3 miles south of Newquay.
An inscribed stone, dated from the sixth to eighth centuries, was found imbedded in the walls of the fifteenth-century church. It bears the name of "Cenet[o]cus, son of Tege[r]nomalus".[1]
The hilltop village of Cubert (once known as St Cubert) is dominated by the spire of its 14th Century Church which was enlarged by the addition of a south aisle a century later.
On medieval maps it often appears as St Kibberd - possibly indicating what the visiting cartographer heard when a local inhabitant was asked the name of the village.
The village is named after the Welsh missionary St Cubert who, as a companion of St Carantoc, brought the Christian faith to this part of Cornwall, and to whom the church is dedicated. Unlike his companion St Carantoc - who travelled on to Brittany - St Cubert returned to Wales becoming abbot of his monastery and, according to the Welsh Chronicles, dying in 775 A.D.
The village has been without its prefix 'St' since the 16/17th centuries when it was abandoned at the same time as the churchwardens whitewashed over the figure of St Cubert dressed as an abbot on the inside wall of the Church. It would be good to think that this is waiting to be uncovered and that Cubert, like many surrounding villages, will have the prefix 'St' restored to its title.
Some way to the west of the village, half way between the village and the coast, is the medieval Holy Well dedicated to St Cubert and from which the coastal bay takes its name. At the north end of the beach, only accessible two hours before and after low-tide, is a natural well in the rock that 19th Century romanticists like to think was the origin of the name Holywell.
A mile to the east of the village near the Newquay crossroads, where the four parishes of St Cubert, Crantock, St Newlyn East and Perranzabuloe meet, was the chapel of St Nectan (the foundations of which were uncovered when the road was widened and straightened in 1970), where on certain Feasts during the year the relics of the Patron Saints of the four parishes were carried in procession for their veneration by the faithful.
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- ^ See the discussion and bibliography in Elisabeth Okasha, Corpus of early Christian inscibed stones of South-west Britain (Leicester: University Press, 1993), pp. 97-99.
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