Church of Saint Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Church.

Church of Saint Michael

WRENN ID
watchful-postern-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1988
Type
Church
Address
Church of Saint Michael, Mawnan
OS grid reference
SW 778 286
Coordinates
50.1159, -5.10899
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of Saint Michael is an Anglican church built around 1872. It is constructed from roughly coursed slate rubble with freestone and granite dressings, topped with dry Delabole slate roofs featuring gable ends, slightly projecting verges, and eaves with exposed rafter ends. The church has a dressed stone chimney adorned with fish scale slates and a pair of round shafts. The layout consists of a nave and chancel under one roof, with a canted end to the slightly narrower chancel. There is an organ and heated vestry transept located to the north of the chancel, and a south porch at the west end of the nave.

The church is designed in the Gothic style, with unaltered elevations that include a chamfered plinth, diagonal corner buttresses, and buttresses dividing the bays. The west façade features a 3-light traceried window with a clock face and a corbelled bell-cote above the south doorway, which has an inner pointed arch. The chancel has a traceried 2-light window. The original planked door and leaded glazing in the windows remain intact. Inside, the church has a virtually unaltered interior with a pointed chancel arch and an arch-braced and wind-braced roof structure. Notable fittings include the original font, pews, and chancel furniture.

Local climate

Church of Saint Michael receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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