Mawgan-in-Meneage
| Mawgan-in-Meneage | |
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 St Mawgan-in-Meneage church | |
  Mawgan-in-Meneage Location within Cornwall | |
| Population | 1,437 (2011 census) |
| OS grid reference | SW707249 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Parish Council |
Mawgan-in-Meneage is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England. It is within the Meneage district of The Lizard peninsula, south of Helston, in the former administrative district of Kerrier. Mawgan-in-Meneage lies within the Cornwall National Landscape. The parish population at the 2011 census was 1437.[1]
The parish includes the village of Garras.
Antiquities
[edit]Evidence of early medieval habitation at Mawgan is in the form of an inscribed pillar stone, standing at the meeting of three roads at the centre of the village; it bears an inscription that is no longer readable, but based on an old drawing and a photograph taken in 1936 it could have been a memorial stone to either 'Cnegumus son of Genaius' or 'Genaius son of Cnegumus'. The date of this inscription is not certain beyond having been carved before the twelfth century.[2] This is a Hiberno-Saxon inscribed stone which originally had a cross head.[3]
History
[edit]The name of the manor was given as "scanctus [sic] mawgan" after the dedication of the church, in the Domesday Book.[4]
The parish church is dedicated to St Mauganus, a Welshman, who is also honoured at Mawgan-in-Pydar and in Wales and Brittany.[5] The church is a Grade I listed building and its surviving fabric dates from the 13th century onwards. Of the earliest date is the font and the south wall. The granite west tower is 15th-century perpendicular gothic, and the waggon roof also dates from that century.[6]
The church was described in The Cornishman newspaper as "an old and dilapidated structure" following a storm, when the porch and the south aisle lost much of their roofing on 29 April 1882.[7] Subsequently the church was restored, with unusual sensitivity for the period, by E H Sedding in 1894.[6]
Other than the font, the church also contains a 14th-century sepulchre to the Carminow family and the mausoleum of Sir Richard Vyvyan, 1st Baronet (d.1665).[6]
Trelowarren
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At Trelowarren is the estate of the Vyvyan family, who have owned it since 1427. The Halliggye Fogou at Trelowarren is the largest in Cornwall. Trelowarren House has a complex history: the original house is mid-15th century and there are later parts dated 1662, 1698 and c. 1750; further additions were made during the 19th century.[8] In the 20th century it was the home of C. C. Vyvyan, the author of a number of books about Cornwall.
Notes
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- ↑ "Parish population 2011 census". Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ See the discussion and bibliography in Elisabeth Okasha, Corpus of Early Christian Inscribed Stones of South-west Britain (Leicester: University Press, 1993), pp. 146-153
- ↑ Peter Beacham; Nikolaus Pevsner (2014). Cornwall. Yale University Press; p. 372. ISBN 978-0-300-12668-6
- ↑ "Heritage Gateway - Results". www.heritagegateway.org.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
- ↑ Doble, G. H. (1962) The Saints of Cornwall; part 2. Truro: Dean and Chapter; pp. 34-44
- 1 2 3 "CHURCH OF SAINT MAUGAN, Mawgan-in-Meneage - 1328596 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
- ↑ "Saturday's Severe Gale". The Cornisnman. Vol. 199, no. 189. 4 May 1882. p. 8.
- ↑ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed. Penguin Books; p. 225
Further reading
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- Vyvyan, C. C. The Old Place. London: Museum Press, 1952 (reissued by Peter Dalwood, Penzance, 1974 ISBN 0950304824)
External links
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Media related to Mawgan-in-Meneage at Wikimedia Commons
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