And Even More St. Mawgan
Mawgan
I was back in St. Mawgan again in early January 2017. This time I was there to explore parts that I had previously missed. I parked in the large public car park, behind the shop and the Falcon Inn, and walked round the church and up the steep hill towards Newquay Airport. Some way up the hill I turned left along a track with handsome Lanherne Barton and its old barn on my left. I followed the track up right. At the end I came to the Convent Tree House, an interesting timber cottage, one story below track level. Back then to Lanherne Convent and attached Church to find, directly to the SSW of the tower of St. Mawgan Church, a fine example of a Cornish Cross, crucified figure within a wheel-head, Celtic type carving on the shaft and a Saxon inscription at the bottom rear. High up, along the wall leading to the Convent are representations of the Stations of The Cross. Just before you bear left to the Convent Church and the Cornish Cross, there is a Marian Shrine on the edge of woodland. Should you be using Cornwall Council's Intractive Mapping Website, the cross appears to be shown in slightly the wrong place. In fact, it is in the loop of path just NE of the letters PW. After I had finished there, I enjoyed a good fresh coffee in front of the fire in the Falcon Inn.
Convent Church Cornish Cross
Convent and its Church, Cross right foreground
Stations of the Cross, 11
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