MAWGAN-in-PYDER, a parish in the hundred
of PYDER, county of CORNWALL, 4 miles (N. W. by W.)
from St. Columb-Major, containing 580 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall,
and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books
at £26. 13. 4. The Rev, Philip Carlyon was patron in
1806. The church is an ancient fabric, containing some
curious monumental brasses of the Arundels, and a richly-
carved screen, separating the nave from the chancel.
In the churchyard is a fine old sculptured cross with a
niche, representing in high relief the Crucifixion, with
other figures, probably taken from some ancient legend,
and bearing the inscription Cnegumijtl Enans, in characters
of the ninth century. Lanherne house, long the
principal residence of the Lords Arundel, was fitted up
by his late lordship as an asylum for a convent of
Carmelite nuns, who emigrated from Antwerp, and by
whom it is still occupied: it contains a neat chapel,
adorned with a few good paintings brought over by the
nuns. The parish is bounded on the west by the Bristol
channel, and has a small harbour, called Mawgan Forth.