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HOME	Long after the Stone Age peoples had moved inland from Mawgan Porth the abbot monk known as Maugan came here in the 6th, century and a monastery and church grew around the place in which he settled. The Monastery grew into the stately building LANHERNE which became the home of the Great Cornish family of ARUNDELL who dominated the life of the village during the 13th to the 18th centuries when in 1794 it was given to Carmelite nuns and is now occupied by the nuns and friars of the Franciscan Order. The Saxon Church that had also grown up below the Monastery was dedicated to St. Mawgan and is found recorded at Exeter Cathedral as early as 1075 and 10 years later in Domesday the parish is recorded as Lanherne. By 1150 the Saxon church was being re-built in the new decorated style of architecture and as Rome would accept only recognised Saints names the new church consisting of nave and chancel and two transepts with the tower on the south transept, was re-dedicated to St. Mawgan and St. Nicholas the latter being the patron saint of seafarers. The south aisle was added a century later in perpendicular style. There is a second great manor house and estate in St. Mawgan called CARNANTON and this estate was earlier owned by The Earl of Warwick, later it became the Manor of the Noye family and then the Brydges-Willyams family. The Gardeners and Farmers from the two great estates needed somewhere to relax and talk and although the village had a number of brewers of beer and cider a 14th century Inn was built and called THE GARDENERS INN. This later adopted the arms of the Brydges-Willyams family and became THE FALCON INN Alongside the Gardeners Inn was the old coaching stables and this became the village shop called HAWKEY’S The shop was named after the three sisters who ran it Frances, Janey and Margaret who kept the shop for over sixty years after their 16 year old brother Tom had been killed in the Great War. Between 1857 and 1861 the acclaimed Victorian Architect William Butterfield came to St. Mawgan and added the Vestry to the church in which he also carried out restoration work. The first Rectory Had been destroyed and Butterfield built the Second Rectory on the hill above the Menalhyl Another of Butterfield’s projects while he was here was to build the Village School by the river Menalhyl. As well as the church Lych Gate The Arms adopted for St. Mawgan Village are made up from the Cornwall colours combined with the arms of the two great families the Arundell’s and the Willyams’ Falcon Crest.
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Long after the Stone Age peoples had moved inland from Mawgan Porth the abbot monk known as Maugan came here in the 6th, century and a monastery and church grew around the place in which he settled.
The Monastery grew into the stately building LANHERNE which became the home of the Great Cornish family of ARUNDELL who dominated the life of the village during the 13th to the 18th centuries when in 1794 it was given to Carmelite nuns and is now occupied by the nuns and friars of the Franciscan Order.
The Saxon Church that had also grown up below the Monastery was dedicated to St. Mawgan and is found recorded at Exeter Cathedral as early as 1075 and 10 years later in Domesday the parish is recorded as Lanherne.
By 1150 the Saxon church was being re-built in the new decorated style of architecture and as Rome would accept only recognised Saints names the new church consisting of nave and chancel and two transepts with the tower on the south transept, was re-dedicated to St. Mawgan and St. Nicholas the latter being the patron saint of seafarers. The south aisle was added a century later in perpendicular style.
There is a second great manor house and estate in St. Mawgan called CARNANTON and this estate was earlier owned by The Earl of Warwick, later it became the Manor of the Noye family and then the Brydges-Willyams family.
The Gardeners and Farmers from the two great estates needed somewhere to relax and talk and although the village had a number of brewers of beer and cider a 14th century Inn was built and called THE GARDENERS INN. This later adopted the arms of the Brydges-Willyams family and became THE FALCON INN
Alongside the Gardeners Inn was the old coaching stables and this became the village shop called HAWKEY’S The shop was named after the three sisters who ran it Frances, Janey and Margaret who kept the shop for over sixty years after their 16 year old brother Tom had been killed in the Great War.
Between 1857 and 1861 the acclaimed Victorian Architect William Butterfield came to St. Mawgan and added the Vestry to the church in which he also carried out restoration work. The first Rectory Had been destroyed and Butterfield built the Second Rectory on the hill above the Menalhyl Another of Butterfield’s projects while he was here was to build the Village School by the river Menalhyl. As well as the church Lych Gate
The Arms adopted for St. Mawgan Village are made up from the Cornwall colours combined with the arms of the two great families the Arundell’s and the Willyams’ Falcon Crest.