Church Of St Mawes

The Church of St Mawes is an Anglican church dating to the 1870s, located on Church Hill in St Just in Roseeland. It is constructed of roughly dressed shale, limestone, and sandstone, with granite quoins and window frames, along with brick quoins to the buttresses and a brick cornice. The roof is dry Delabole slate, laid in alternating bands of plain and fishscale decoration, featuring pierced, chevron, and crested clay ridge tiles. A two-stage bellcote with a sprocketted pyramidal slate roof, topped with a ball and cross finial, sits over the west end; the chancel roof is at a slightly lower level. The church comprises a nave, a narrower chancel, and a gabled, south porch at the west end. The design demonstrates Early English influence. The south wall features a steep gabled porch with shaped slates to the verge and a moulded eaves cornice; it has red sandstone walls and a central granite pointed moulded doorway with a hood mould and original boarded doors. Four weathered buttresses support the nave wall, punctuated by three, three-light lancet windows with relieving arches. A moulded eaves cornice extends to the chancel, which is slightly set back and features a two-light window with quatrefoil tracery. The north wall links to a schoolroom. The west end has a four-light window with intersecting tracery, and the east window of the chancel has tracery with three trefoils.

The interior retains its original layout. The nave has a four-bay arch brace pitch pine roof with bracing springing from granite corbels, and intermediate plain collared trusses. The pointed chancel arch has engaged shafts to the jambs and a hood mould. The reredos also features engaged shafts and a hood mould to the east window. The floor is tiled in the aisles and western area. Original glass remains, except for three south nave windows, which commemorate Francis H. Barby, Rector 1939-1958, and depict the story of Saint Mawes; the west window commemorates William Vincent (1808-1889) and his wife Louisa (1808-1869). Original fittings include pitch pine pews with shaped ends, a blind trefoil arcaded pulpit, and an octagonal granite front in Perpendicular style with quatrefoils.