Tag Archives: St Mawgan

St Mawgan Churchyard Boat

Posted on 2, July 2013 by newquayt

If you visit the churchyard at St Mawgan you’ll see an unusual wooden boat cut out as a gravestone for some mariners’ graves.
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Help to Save the Lanherne Monastery at St Mawgan

Posted on 1, July 2011 by newquayt

Since 1794 nuns have lived at Lanherne Monastery in St Mawgan.  In 1794 the Arundells gave their Manor House at St Mawgan to the Camelite nuns to use as a convent. Today an enclosed community of Franciscan Sisters live there … Continue reading →

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