The
parish church is dedicated to St Corentin. The building is
cruciform and of the
Norman period, but a north aisle was added in the 15th century. It was probably originally a manorial church of
Winnianton, but became a chapelry of
Breage in the 13th century. 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.
Sandys Wason From 1905 to 1920 the parishes of Cury and Gunwalloe were served by Father Sandys Wason as
perpetual curate. 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). 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. He held open air services by the sea at Gunwalloe Church Cove on All Souls' Day and All Saints' Day. 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. Thereafter he moved to London and for a while owned a small publishing firm called Cope & 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."
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. ==Bochym==