Towednack (Cornish: Tewydnek)[1][2] is a churchtown and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

[4] In 2007 there were calls in the local Cornish press for the gold hoard to be returned to Cornwall from the British Museum.

The parish saint disguised under the name 'Tewennocus' is almost certainly St Winwalo (pet-form: Winnoc), also commemorated at Gunwalloe and Landewednack, as well as Landevennec, Brittany: the place-name being derived from Old Cornish "te-Winnoc" (thy St Winnoc [Winwalo]), now represented as Late Cornish Te Wydnek.

this parish will process the most thoroughly restored Church in West Cornwall.One of the bells has the inscription ″Baragwanath″ (wheat bread), a name which was still common in this part of Cornwall at the time of the visit of the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, in September 1882.

[7] Further restoration work was carried out in 1884 with the replacement of the wooden floor of the nave, which was destroyed by dry rot.

The early incised cross on a stone in the porch and the altar slab suggest that the subordination to Lelant only began after the Norman Conquest.

The Gorsedh Kernow was held in the parish in 1933, and the church was the first to hold a service, in Cornish, in modern times.

[13] In the early part of the 19th-century Towednack was one of the richest tin-producing districts in west Cornwall.

W. S. Lach-Szyrma, to a group of antiquarians from the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, was the legend of the tower: In 1975 the church was the scene for the marriage and burial services in Poldark, a BBC series based on the novels of Winston Graham.