Cornwall. Mawgan-In-Pydar
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DIRECTOUY.] • CORNWALL. MAWGAN-IN-PYDAR. 953 MAWGAN-IN-MENEAGE, situated ou the river tion; itissupposedtobeatleast900 years old. In afield, Bel, is a parish, 4 miles east-south-east from Helston, 10 called "Gulegullas," near Trelowarren, there was discovered miles from Penryn station on the Cornwall railway, in the in the lifetime of the late Sir R. R. Vyvyan, a curious cave Western division of the county, hundre1 of Kerrier, Helston or vault, the walls of which are made of rough unhewn union and county court district, Kerrier rural deanery, stones, the layers each slightly overlapping the other, and Cornwall archdeaconry, and Truro diocese. The church of the roof being finally closed by a flat slab; the passage St. Mawgan is a building of granite, in the Decorated and as far as it is now open, roughly assumes the form of a T, Perpendicular styles, and consists of chancel, nave, north and the entrance to the side passage is by a doorway only aisle with shallow transept, south transept, or Carminow 2 feet square, the stone sides of which are worn smooth by aisle, south porch, and a battlemented tower with very constant traffic ; the passage varies in height from 3 to 6 fine pinnacles and containing 3 bells, dated respectively teet, and is supposed to have been intended as a means of 1827, 1868 and 1834, and a stained wmdow, in which are egress from the British camp or fort, which can still be shields charged with the arms of the Trevelyan and traced, and the outline of which it for the most part follows. Vincent families : under the east end of the north aisle Trelowarren, 1 ~ miles from Mawgan and 4i miles from Eels is the vault of the Vyvyan family; over it is the tomb ton, is the seat of the RP-v. Sir Vyell Donnithorne Vyvyan of Sir Richard Vyvyan knight and hart. (r665), whose hart. J.P. who is lord of the manor and chief landowner; sword and helmet are hung on the ironwork of the the house, an ancient edifice of granite, almost wholly recon tomb: in the south transept ie a low arched recess, enclos- structed within by Sir Richard Vyvyan, fifth baronet, in ing the recumbent effigies, in freestone. of a cross-legged 1750, occupies three sides of a s1uare, and commands charm knight and a lady; the knightly figure, from the " benrl" ing and varied views of the woodland scenery by which it is on the shield, is assumed to represent a member of the surrounded : there is an extensive library and many fine oil Carminow family, one of whom, Ralph Carminow, in the paintings, including a portrait of Charles I. on horseback, reign of Richard II. claimed this bearing as against Lords presented to the family after the Restoration in acknowledg Scrope and Grosvenor: in 1865, on the re-building of the ment of their devotion to the Royalist cause: attached to wall, a grave four feet deep, was met with, forming part of the mansion is a chapel containing an organ. The soil is the wall and containing human remains and some relics: light and fertile; the subsoil is gravel, marl and rock. The the south transept has a hagioscope and a blocked low chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 5,274 side window; the stained west window is unusually fine and acres; rateable value, £4,549; the population in r881 was riCh: over the porch is placed a sundial, with the date 1695: 861. there are many monuments to the Vyvyan family, baronets PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. Elizabeth \Villiams, receivt>r. Letters 1665-1841, and various others of modern date. The register through Helston, which is the nearest money order & dates from the year 1678. The living is a rectory, with St. telegraph office, arrive at 9·55 a.m. ; dispatched at 2.15 Martin's annexed, tithe rent-charge [910; net yearly value p.m [750 with residence and 22 acres of glebe, in the gift of and A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1875 for the held since 1870 by the Rev. William Henry llloxsome M.A. united district of .Mawgan-in-Meneage and St. Martin-in- of Wadham College, Oxford. At Garras and Bowgeheer are Meneage; S. Lawrance, St. Martin's, clerk to the board United Free Methodist chapels, and at Garras a Wesleyan Board Sclwols (boys'), built in 1875 for 110 boys; average chapel, seating roo persons. Near the church, on the side of attendance, 6o : Charles Volz, master: (girls'), situated the road leading to Helston, stands Mawgan Cross, of which on the road to Helston, & opened m 1877 for 70 girls: aver- only the shaft now remains, with faint traces of an in scrip- age attendance, 6o; Miss Emma Evans, mistress Bloxsome Rev. Wm. Hy. M.A. [rector] Dow~ing Edward, farmer, Rosevear Reed William, farmer, Bowgeheer Vyvyan The Rev.Sir Vyell Donnithorne Harr1s Mary (Mrs.),shopkeeper, Garras Reed Nicholas, farmer, Treverry bart. J.P. Trelowarren Harry Henry, carpenter . Rogers John Wicks, farmer, Carlidnow Hodge William, farmer, County br1dge Rowe Samuel, farmer COMMERCIAL. James William, farmer, Roskymer Rowe William, farmer, Tre,·elgin .AndrewJohn, farmer, Gwarthandrea Jewell James, farmer Secomb Peter Thomas, grocer .Aver Elisha, farmer, Rose-in-the-Vale John Richard, farmer, Bornuick Secomb William, farmer, Langweath Bartle Thomas, farmer, Tangyes Johns Francis, farmer, Bojarrow Sleeman William, farmer, Killianchor Bartlett John Ginn, farmer, Boscawen Joseph Thomas, farmer, Clise Thomas Richard, farmer, Lanarth Boaden Edwin, farmer, Gilly Lobb Joseph, farmer, Tangyes Trewallack Martha(Mrs.),miller(water), Boaden John, farmer, Skyburriowe Lugg Henry, blacksmith, Clise Skyburrio mill Boaden Williarn, farmer, Tregadjack Lugg Henry Reed, tailor, Cht!rchtown Trounson Mary(Mrs.),farmer, Mawgan Chygwidden Jn. blacksmith, Rosevear Lugg James farmer, Tregadra bridge Collins Richard, farmer, Gweek Lugg Simon, farmer, Zeela Trounson Samuel, farmer, Penvoris Collins William, miller (water), Gweek Lugg William, Ship inn Wicks .Alexander, carpenter Cook Joseph, carpenter Lyne .Alice (Mrs.), farmer, Tregoose Williams Edward, farmer, TrPgoose Crapp .Alfred, farmer, Penbo Mann James, farmer, Nanseveen Williams Elizabeth (~rs.),postmistress Curnow .Alfred, mason Medlyn Charles, farmer, Tregear Williams George, farmer, Carminow Curnow James Wm.boot maker, Garras Mite hell Joseph, farmer, Carminow Williams Hannibal, farmer, Tregadra Davies James T. farmer, Tregear Pascoe .Andrew, miller (water), Tre- \Villiams James, shoe maker Davies John Nichols, farmer, seed & lowarren mill Williams Jas.Gilbert, butcher,Pollossick manure merchant & agricultural im- Pearce John, farmer, Killianchor Williams Joseph, farmer, Relowas Vean plement dealer, Gweleath Perry Peter, mason \Vyatt Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Davies Thomas, farmer, Bojarrow Ralyh Edwin, farmer, Chygarky MA WGAN-IN-PYDAR (or ST. MAWGAN), is a parish priest: attached to the screen on this side are seven brass and village, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred plates, chiefly inscribed with English and Latin verses to the of Pyder, St. Columb union and county court district, rural .Arundell family: there are also monuments to Henry deanery of Pyder, Cornwall archdeaconry and Truro diocese; Stephen, gent. r6n and Dorothy, his wife, 163o, erected by it is 3 miles north-west from St. ~olumb Major and 5~ from their children; Col. Humphrey Noye, son of the famous St. Columb road station, near the sea coast. The church of .Attorney-General Noye, 1679, and a number of memorials of St. Mawgan, restored in the year 1861, is an edifice in the modern date. On the south side of the churchyard is erected Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, the stern of a boat, on which the following inscription is nave and south aisle extending the whole length of the painted: "Here lie the bodies of Jacob Williams, Charles church, north transept and a tower containing 3 bells: a Cawley, Thomas Collins, William Elliott, Thomas Brown, stained window was placej at the west end of the nave in Richard Cutler, William Lloyd, David Roberts, Owen Hughes 1876 by Edmund Carlyon esq. in memory of his father, a and one man unknown, whoweredrifted on shore in a boat, former rector of this parish: the carved oak pulpit dates frozen to death, at Beacon Cove, in this parish, on Sunday the from the reign of Queen Mary: the chancel is separated 13th day of December, MDCCCXLYI. :" at the west end of the from the nave and south aisle by carved screen work formed, church stands the celebrated Mawgan Cross, consisting of in part, of portions of the ancient canopied screen, richly an octagonal shaft, with a square head, the sides of which ornamented and bearing the arms of .Arundell, quartering are formed by ogee-arched niches containing boldly carved Carminow: attached to the screen on the south side are figures ; that on the eastern side represents the Crucifixion: twelve brass shields of arms of the .Arundell family, with in the western are figures of a king and queen, the latter iu numerous quarterings: in the centre of the chancel floor is a kneeling posture before a desk ; a coiled serpent appears to a priests' brass of superior workmanship and well preserved: be in the act of biting the king's face, while an angel holds in the north wall is a sedile: at the east end of the aisle are its tail; on the other side are figures of ecclesiastics; it is 5 brasses representing a knight and his lady, a lady and a feet 6 inches in height, of Catacluse st{)ne, mounted on a .