Charles was a member of the Mawer Group of Leeds architectural sculptors, which included those mentioned above, plus Matthew Taylor.

[1] According to the 1841 census, by age two years he was living in New Huddersfield, Leeds,[2] with his parents and his maternal grandmother Elizabeth Scriven.

[3] In the 1851 Census, Charles is described as a scholar of twelve years old and living with his parents at 6 Oxford Place, Leeds.

William Ingle died in 1870 when Catherine was aged 67 years; thereafter Charles Mawer was probably carving alone when the work involved travelling, after 1870.

Media related to Mawer and Ingle at Wikimedia Commons St Michael & All Angels' church, Barton-le-Street, Ryedale, North Yorkshire, first constructed in the 1160s, is a Grade I listed building.

There are fifteen carved panels around the doorjambs of the south porch; five of these are mediaeval; the rest are "high quality Victorian reproductions" by Mawer.

"[21] Inside the church: "with some elements, such as the continuous running scroll frieze forming a high dado, it is difficult to separate the original C12 work from Victorian repair.

"[26] St Michael's was primarily listed for its 12th century carvings, but with respect to the Victorian craftsmanship: "particularly for the high quality C12 style stone sculpture by Charles Mawer.

The former Archibald Ramsden premises at 12 Park Row, Leeds, was designed by George Corson for the music publisher, and opened for business on Tuesday 26 March 1872.

It stood just north of the site of the present modern Natwest bank, which is on the corner of Park Row and Bond Street.

In 1872, the Leeds Times reported:[34] "A tympanum in the gable [above the Flora and Pomona] bears the date of the building, 1871, with figures and ornamental foliage, and above that the Bradford arms and motto, Labor omni wincit ...

"[34] (Leeds Times 19 October 1872)As of 2017, Bradford City Council retains possession of the carved stones from this building.

In 2014 a number of the original carvings by Mawer and Keyworth were rediscovered in a compound in Bradford,[35] and six of them were placed on display in front of Merchant's House, Peckover Street.

This font is supplied with water from a spring in the steep bank that rises a few yards from the west end, and can be turned on any time.

Four of the faces of the octagonal stage of the tower were "finished in dressed stone with moulded shafts and carved capitals at the angles."

[47] Between 1874 and 1875, in collaboration with architect William Swinden Barber, Charles produced the capitals and other carvings, but not the pulpit and reredos.

[1] The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer reported in 1875:[48] [Indoors] "the braces to the chancel roof are supported on winged angels holding shields, which are charged with the emblems of the Passion ... [Outside on the tower], facing the high road, is the principal entrance door, with the well-known four-leaved flowers carved in the hollow of the jambs and arch, the hood mould is finished with the heads of king and bishop; over the doorway is a canopied niche in which is placed the figure of St. Matthew ... Mr. Charles Mawer has executed the carving in a most creditable manner.

"[48] (Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 22 September 1875) Media related to St Matthew's Church, Lightcliffe at Wikimedia Commons No image of this building has been found, but there is a description in the Leeds Mercury, 1875:[49] "The building in the occupation of Messrs Pearson Brothers, by Mr George Corson ...

The shop door and window is enclosed between massive piers with foliated caps, which carry a deeply moulded stilted round segmental arch, the inner member of which is semicircular.

Over this is a triple semicircular-headed arcade containing sunk trefoil window heads borne by shafts with foliated caps, which rise from a projecting sill course.

[49] Media related to New Briggate, archive images at Wikimedia Commons St Thomas Killinghall is an unlisted building, designed by William Swinden Barber.

Both of these necessary adjuncts to the Church service have been executed by Mr. Charles Mawer, of Leeds, and the few bosses and band of foliage introduced in the design are carried with great spirit and a faithful following after old examples.

"(Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Herald 31 July 1880)[53] Media related to St. Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall, North Yorkshire at Wikimedia Commons

In 1885 the Knaresborough Post described the building as follows:[55] The front, which is executed in cleansed fine grit sandstone of a uniform light yellow tint, from Messrs. King & Co.'s Moorhouse Quarries at Pateley Bridge, is in the Italian Renaissance or Free Classic, the lower order being Roman Ionic, and the upper one which runs through two stories Roman composite, the bank part is emphasized by composite fluted and reeded pilasters, a central tower finished with ornamental ironwork, and attic pediment, with boldly carved tympanum ... carvers, Messrs. Mawer and Paylor, Leeds.