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Monday 14 May 2012

James Carne - St. Columb Minor, Cornwall


The Parish Clerk (1907)
Peter Hampson Ditchfield
Courtesy : Project Gutenburg




"The oldest parish clerk living is James Carne, who  serves in the parish of St. Columb Minor, Cornwall, and has held the office for fifty-eight years. He is now in his hundred and first year, and still is unremitting in attention to duty, and regularly attends church. He followed in the wake of his father and grandfather, who filled the same position for fifty-four years and fifty years respectively".

War Dead - Trunch




Saint Botolph - Trunch

© Godric Godricson


Cornish Cross


© Godric Godricson




The 'overworked' Celtic (or Cornish) Cross with ornamentation is a recurring motif from the late 19th Century onwards and it is found in graveyards around the UK. This one is in a small (unnamed) parish in North Norfolk and stands in splendid isolation. The monument is at the same time an expression of pious hope in the Resurrected Christ and also contains a brash statement about personal identity, family  and eternal individuality.