Mawgan-in-Meneage

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]

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]

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.