The Five parishes of St Anthony, Manaccan, St Martin, St Mawgan and Keverne form that part of the Lizard Peninsula known as the Meneage, "the land of Monks".

The registers of the see of Exeter reveal that there were possibly nine chapels here in the middle ages, including ones dedicated to St Mary Magdalene and St Margaret.

700-Proberbly the first church on the site - note the neighbouring Monastic Manor lands of Gwarthandrea. St Maugan was a Abbot-Bishop from Pembrokeshire who travelled from Mawgan Porth near Newquay to Mawgan Creek in Meneage (the land of Monks), en route to Brittany , especially the St Malo area. His inscription appears on one of the large sanctuary candlesticks, and his carved figure holding a crozier is on the outside keystone of the west tower window.

800-Mawgan Cross in the village green is 6'9''high, and once had the inscription "Cnegumi Fili Genaius".

977- Saxon Charter records Cornish names surviving here in place and field names, e.g."Relowas".

1281-Formed a united Parish with St Martin in this Year.

1381-On the 1st February Pope Urban VIth permitted the consecration of a burial ground at St Martin.

1385-August burial ground consecrated at St Martin as permitted by Pope Urban VIth in 1381.

1400s-The church has traces of this period in its cross shape, nave and chancel. The font has minor shafts curved around the shape of the bowl in a peculiar manner. It is made of alvan stone , but has lost two of the four corner shafts - remnants are nearby. It is octagonal because eight is the scriptural number for eternal life.

1559-The Baptism, Marriage, Burial registers date from this year.

1571 to 1694/6 The earliest parchment registers of St Martin date from this year.

1600s-A North Aisle was added with seven arcade windows and a chantry chapel transept. The waggon roof survives in the nave, north aisle and transepts. The aisle retains old oak purlins, ribs and bosses including a set of the Mystic Rose- A symbol of Mary.

1665-Sir Richard Vyvyan died. At the East end of the north Aisle is a wall aumbry and a mausoleum were he a Royalist in the Civil War is buried he died defending the dennis at St Anthony- in -Meneage. His early sixteenth century half-sword and helmet hang from the timbers.

1671- A religious census reveals a small concentration of Roman Catholic Recusants here.

1695-Near the church gate is a sundial with the inscription "I Worgan Fecit, Mawgan P'ish.

1708-Hannibal Basset died and a brass inscription can be found in the church.

1980-Mawgan was linked to Cury with Gunwalloe.

Notes

The interior arch springs from sculptured corbels, and its keystone terminates in a flat disc, on which are carved a Latin cross, a figure resembling the spear and sponge, a pair of pincers, and a circular disc.

Under the East window in the North transept lies an ancient alter slab with its five consecration crosses incised upon it.

In the Lady chapel are the effigies of Sir Roger De Carminow (A descendant of King Arthur) and his widow Lady Johanna. At the beginning of the reign of James I the effigies were removed from the thirteenth century Carminow Chapel. The life size freestone is in the wall recess under the window and shows the dress and equipment of a knight of the period. The effigy is badly worn and defaced, and the illustration is partly a reconstruction based on similar monuments elsewhere.

 His crossed legs reveal faith in the resurrection, and the fact he was a crusader, he was with Edward I in the last crusade of the Palestinian holy war, and in the 1296 Scottish war. he died in 1308. His Knights sword and shield display the bend of the Carminow arms. A small triangular shield with a plain "bend", or diagonal band.

 

The difficulties arising when two or more individuals claimed the same arms are illustrated by a classic controversy in the 14th century. A Cornish knight, a member of this same Carminow family, was challenged to prove his right to bear the very simple arms, 'azure, a bend or', that is, a blue shield bearing a diagonal gold band. These same arms were claimed by two unrelated English knights, one of whom maintained that his family had used the device from the time of the Norman Conquest. Carminow for his part testified that the arms had been granted to his family at the time of King Arther! At neither period was there such a thing as an inheritable coat of arms, but the council of knights hearing the case accepted both testimonies. It was , and still is, the rule that no two individuals of the same nation should bear identical arms, and one of the English knights was obliged to adopt a different device. The other was allowed to retain the old arms, and Carminow too was allowed to continue their use. As was stated in the records of the case, Cornwall was in fact a separate country, ' a large land formerly bearing the name of a kingdom.

In 1865 in the wall , a Grave was discovered with a perfect skeleton with arms extended on each side of the body, covered with a stone coffin, plus three skulls. At present we have no further information regarding this.