About Us

At St Mawgan Church, we do our best to welcome all in our community and visitors to come to services and events or just to visit the church and the churchyard.

We have regular Sunday services at least twice a month - see ‘Services and events’ - and normally have tea and coffee etc after the service. No charge, donations only. We have a brief Morning Prayer service at 9am on Tuesdays and Thursdays, live-streamed on Facebook.

The church is frequently used for whole community events, school and pre-school events and by various small community groups. Many of our events are fundraisers, but it’s more important that people enjoy the event!

The church building has an impressive history, with so much of it completed by the time of the English Reformation in the early 1500s. As well as a guidebook, we have a timeline display above the wheelchair ramp and an interactive touchscreen display on the bells, clock and tower. We also have a church heritage website – https://www.stmawganchurchheritage.org - to complement these pages on A Church Near You.

We do our best to make the church accessible to all - see ‘Facilities’. Our church heritage website has satisfactorily passed an independent accessibility audit to assess compliance with WCAG 2.2 AA.

We do our best to care for the environment. We have an air-to-air heating system, supported by solar panels. We try to support biodiversity in the churchyard whilst also enabling people to visit graves. Our flower festivals have encouraged the use of locally grown flowers and recycled materials.

We are a charity for the purposed of the Charities Act 2011. The Parochial Church Council (PCC) is the board of trustees that has responsibility for the church. We are part of the Benefice of Lann Pydar - five parishes with the same Rector, the Reverend Helen Baber - and work together to complement each other and share resources.

Many leave lovely comments in our visitors’ book, with lots referring to how peaceful the church is. Visitors include walkers on the Cornish Celtic Way, for which St Mawgan is one of the stopping points - see https://www.cornishcelticway.co.uk/ .