{{Short description|Civil parish in Cornwall, England}} {{distinguish|St Mawgan}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=January 2026}} {{Infobox UK place | official_name = Mawgan-in-Meneage | civil_parish = Mawgan-in-Meneage | country = England | region = South West England | coordinates = {{coord|50.080|-5.206|display=title|region:GB-CON_type:city}} | os_grid_reference = SW707249 | post_town = | postcode_area = | postcode_district = | dial_code = | unitary_england = Cornwall | shire_county = Cornwall | hide_services = | population = 1437 | population_ref = (2011 census) | area_total_km2 = | static_image = St. Mawgan-in-Meneage church - geograph.org.uk - 418399.jpg | static_image_caption = St Mawgan-in-Meneage church | website = {{URL|https://mawgan-in-meneage-pc.gov.uk/|Parish Council}} | constituency_westminster = St Ives }} thumb|Mawgan Cross; with stone cross by the roadside thumb|Mawgan-in-Meneage in relation to neighbouring parishes '''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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/MawganinMeneage/index.html#Population|title= Parish population 2011 census|accessdate= 10 February 2015}}</ref>
The parish includes the village of Garras
==Antiquities== 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.<ref>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</ref> This is a Hiberno-Saxon inscribed stone which originally had a cross head.<ref>Peter Beacham; Nikolaus Pevsner (2014). ''Cornwall''. Yale University Press; p. 372. ISBN 978-0-300-12668-6</ref>
==History== The name of the manor was given as "scanctus [sic] mawgan" after the dedication of the church, in the Domesday Book.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Heritage Gateway - Results|url=https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO15631&resourceID=1020|access-date=2022-01-09|website=www.heritagegateway.org.uk}}</ref>
The parish church is dedicated to St Mauganus, a Welshman, who is also honoured at Mawgan-in-Pydar and in Wales and Brittany.<ref>Doble, G. H. (1962) ''The Saints of Cornwall; part 2''. Truro: Dean and Chapter; pp. 34-44</ref> 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=CHURCH OF SAINT MAUGAN, Mawgan-in-Meneage - 1328596 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1328596|access-date=2022-01-09|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Saturday's Severe Gale |work=The Cornisnman |issue=189 |date=4 May 1882 |volume=199 |page=8}}</ref> Subsequently the church was restored, with unusual sensitivity for the period, by E H Sedding in 1894.<ref name=":0" />
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).<ref name=":0" />
==Trelowarren== thumb|Trelowarren House 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.<ref>Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall'', 2nd ed. Penguin Books; p. 225</ref> In the 20th century it was the home of C. C. Vyvyan, the author of a number of books about Cornwall.
==Notes== thumb|The war memorial {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== {{Portal|Cornwall}} *Vyvyan, C. C. ''The Old Place''. London: Museum Press, 1952 (reissued by Peter Dalwood, Penzance, 1974 ISBN 0950304824)
==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Mawgan-in-Meneage}}
* [https://mawgan-in-meneage-pc.gov.uk/ Mawgan-in-Meneage Parish Council] {{Cornwall|state=collapsed}} {{St Ives CP navigation box}}
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Category:Civil parishes in Cornwall Category:Manors in Cornwall Category:Meneage Category:Villages in Cornwall