Lost chapel east of Cubert associated with a gathering of four neighbouring religious communities.
St Nighton’s, also called St Nectan’s, was a chapel at High Lanes east of Cubert. Nicholas Roscarrock recorded a tradition of neighbouring communities bringing crosses and relics there at Rogationtide. Rescue excavation in 1968 recorded part of a probable chapel before road construction covered the site. Its exact position is uncertain: surviving records give differing approximate grid references.
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