St Mabe, Cornwall
Historical Description
Mabe, St, a parish in Cornwall, 2½ miles SSW of Penryn station on the G.W.R., and 3½ W by S of Falmouth. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Penryn. Acreage, 2569; population, 648. The parish council consists of ten members. Granite is quarried. An ancient cross is at Holland. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Truro. The church is ancient, has a lofty granite tower, and has been restored. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1653.
Churches
Church of England
St. Laudus (parish church)
The church of St. Mabe, situated on high ground, is an ancient edifice of granite, in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of six bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 bells, all cast in 1744 and recast in 1877: the church retains the rood stairs, an Easter sepulchre, a piscina, and sedilia: the south doorway is Norman, and has a plain square stoup: the church was damaged by lightning on the 4th February, 1866, and was thoroughly restored in 1868, at a cost or about £1,400, of which sum Miss Williams, of Falmouth, subscribed £1,000, and William Shilson esq. of Tremough, £100; at the restoration of the church some very interesting groups of figures carved in alabaster were discovered, which are now preserved at the Vicarage; the church plate includes an ancient silver chalice: there are 130 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Maps
Online maps of St Mabe are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cornwall papers online:
- Royal Cornwall Gazette
- Cornishman
- West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser
- Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser
Visitations Heraldic
We have a copy of The Visitations of Cornwall, by Lieut.-Col. J.L. Vivian online.