St Mabyn Parish Church

[3] Built in the Perpendicular style, with possible Norman origins, it consists of a chancel, nave and north and south aisles.

There is a piscina (used to cleanse sacred vessels after mass at the high altar) on the north side and the remains of rood loft stairs, now built up.

The font is one of Norman table-top type: it has a circular basin, hollowed in a square block decorated with blind arcade set on a round ornamented shaft.

[6] Charles Peters, rector 1726–75, was recognized as the finest Hebrew scholar in Europe; his Dissertation on the Book of Job was published in 1751.

[13] In March 2014 thieves broke into the church and stole a 19th-century painting of Christ's preparation for entombment (a copy of a work by Italian artist Jacopo Bassano) and also a policeman's truncheon dated 1807.

Saint Mabena (detail of stained glass window)