A few words will perhaps be expected as to the church, and the adjacent former residence of the Arundells of Lanherne. The sylvan beauty of the situation and its surroundings has already been adverted to, and the church and churchyard, at least, are still worthy of their site; but little remains of the once noble old mansion, of which Carew wrote: 'This said house of Lanherne is apportioned with a large scope of land, which, while the owners there lived, was employed to frank hospitality.' At MAWGAN CHURCH the fragments of the screen which separates the nave and south aisle are carved with the arms of Arundell quartering Carminow, and on the south side of the chancel are brass shields on which the same arms are quartered with Archdekne, Arches, Carminow, Denham, Durnford, Grenville, etc. At the east end of the aisle on the screen are seven brass plates, 'chiefly inscribed with English and Latin verses, admonitory to the reader and eulogistic of the Arundells,' _e.g._: 'What favour FORTUNE him affords, his landes and livings tell; Of brethren five, though youngst he were, to lyve yet had he well. His worthie house him worshipp gave, so famous ys that race; The familie of ARUNDELLS, well knowne in every place. And GRACE that woulde not be o'ercome gave him a godlye ende; A gyft wherebi his soule ys sure to glory to ascende. Where unto GRACE & GOD he yealds the price and prayse for aye; What FORTUNE or dame NATURE gave, DEATH having tane away.' The transept, or Arundell chapel, was once used as a burial-place for the nuns of the adjoining nunnery; it has a hagioscopic communication with the chancel. The following inscription on a brass, the chief portion of which is now missing, has also been preserved: 'Here under lyeth buryed Mary Arundell, the daughter of Syr John Arundell, Knight, with the body of Elizabeth, his wyfe, who decessed the 23 day of April, A.D. 1578; and in the fourty-nyne yere of her age. On whose soul God have mercye. 'This virgin wyse, whose lampe with oyle repleat The bridegroom's call with burninge light attended; By following him hath won a worthye seate, And lyves for aye, though death this lyfe hath ended.' Etc., etc., etc. Nearly the whole of the older Arundell brasses, which bore the names, dates of death, and ages of the members of that family are not now to be found in the church; one, a sort of palimpsest brass, bore on one side an acrostic to the memory of Jane Arundell, and on the other a representation of the Deity, and two other figures, probably symbolical. This brass is said to have been removed to the nunnery at the beginning of the present century.