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Mawgan-in-Meneage is a
At Trelowarren is the estate of the
Mawgan-in-Meneage is a civil parish
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in Cornwall
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, United Kingdom. It is situated in the Meneage
The Meneage ( kw, Menaghek or ''Manahek'') is a district in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. The nearest large towns are Falmouth and Penryn. (''Note: the coordinates above are the approximate centre of the Meneage district.'')
The meaning of ...
district of The Lizard peninsula south of Helston
Helston ( kw, Hellys) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated at the northern end of the Lizard Peninsula approximately east of Penzance and south-west of Falmouth.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map shee ...
in the former administrative district of Kerrier
Kerrier ( kw, Keryer) was a local government district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was the most southerly district in the United Kingdom, other than the Isles of Scilly. Its council was based in Camborne (). Other towns in the distr ...
. The parish population at the 2011 census was 1437.
Mawgan-in-Meneage lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
The Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers in Cornwall, England, UK; that is, about 27% of the total area of the county. It comprises 12 separate areas, designated under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 for s ...
(AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation.
Antiquities
Evidence of early medieval habitation at Mawgan is in the form of an inscribed pillar stone, located 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.History
The name of the manor was given as "scanctus icmawgan" after the dedication of the church, in theDomesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
.
The parish church is dedicated to St Mauganus
Mawgan and Meugan (also Meigant) (Latin: ''Mauganus'') are names referring to either one or two Brythonic saints who flourished in the 5th or 6th century.
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Both names are widely attested in place-names and church dedications, Mawgan in C ...
, a Welshman, and he is also honoured at Mawgan in Pydar and in Wales and Brittany. 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
Perpendicular Gothic (also Perpendicular, Rectilinear, or Third Pointed) architecture was the third and final style of English Gothic architecture developed in the Kingdom of England during the Late Middle Ages, typified by large windows, four-c ...
, and the waggon roof
A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault, wagon vault or wagonhead vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance. The curves are ...
also dates from that century.
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. Subsequently the church was restored, with unusual sensitivity for the period, by E H Sedding in 1894.
Other than the font, the church also contains a 14th century sepulchre to the Carminow Family and the mausoleum of Richard Vyvyan 1st Baronet (d.1665).
Trelowarren
At Trelowarren is the estate of the Vyvyan family
: ''For the Vivian family of Glynn and Truro, Cornwall, see Baron Vivian.''
The Vyvyans are a prominent Cornish family who were members of Parliament, baronets, and landowners in Penwith and Kerrier since the 15th century. The Vyvyan family ...
, who have owned it since 1427. The Halliggye Fogou
Halliggye Fogou is one of many fogous in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
The site is under the guardianship of English Heritage, and managed by the Trelowarren Estate, where the fogou is located. Entry to the fogou is free but there is a cha ...
at Trelowarren is the largest in Cornwall. Trelowarren House has a complex building history: the original house is mid-15th century and there are later parts dated 1662, 1698 and ca. 1750 (further additions were made during the 19th century).Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall'', 2nd ed. Penguin Books; p. 225
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Further reading
*Vyvyan, C. C. ''The Old Place''. London, 1952External links
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