Quethiock

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The parish church dedicated to Saint Hugo in the center of the village.

Quethiock is a municipality in the former District Caradon the county Cornwall in England with 429 inhabitants (2001). The parish is located in southeast Cornwall between the two north-south running rivers Lynher and Tiddy . In the north Quethiock borders on St Ive , in the west on Menheniot and in the south Landrake joins St Erney .

Sights include a Gothic parish church and a Cornish cross. The church is in the Perpendicular Style , an English late Gothic style with a nave, a north aisle with four arcades, a north and south transept and a choir. The tower on the west side of the nave can be assigned to the Decorated Style period and is therefore older than the nave. The church is dedicated to a saint named Hugo. However, it is unclear which Hugo is meant. Possible candidates are Hugo von Cluny or Hugo von Lincoln . Since the congregation is probably much older, this dedication was made after the foundation or the dedication refers to an unknown earlier saint named Hugo.

Cornish cross on the south side of the church

The Cornish cross, carved from granite , is located south of the church near the boundary wall. The four remaining individual parts of the cross were only discovered during construction in 1881 and then put together and erected again in the immediate vicinity of the site. At just over four meters tall, it is one of the tallest in Cornwall. The cross is decorated with knot patterns, some of which have suffered considerably.

Web links

Commons : Quethiock  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ 2001 census for Quethiock. Office for National Statistics, 2001, accessed January 19, 2009 .
  2. ^ Map of Parishes along the River Lynher. Lynda Mudle-Small, accessed January 24, 2009 .
  3. ^ Parish Church of Quethiock. Retrieved February 4, 2009 .
  4. ^ Nicholas Orme: The Saints of Cornwall . Oxford University Press, New York 2000, ISBN 0-19-820765-4 , pp. 143 .
  5. ^ Arthur G. Langdon: Old Cornish Crosses . Joseph Pollard, Truro 1896, p. 398–401 ( digitized at archive.org ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '  N , 4 ° 23'  W