St Maddern’s Church, Madron
St Maddern's Church is the parish church of Madron, near Penzance in Cornwall and was once the mother church of Morvah and Penzance. It is a Grade I listed building.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: Grade I listed church in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Church Of St Maddern”, “Madron Parish Church”, “St Madernus‘ Church”, “St Madernus‘ Church, Madron”, and “St. Maddern’s Church”
- Postal code: TR20 8SP
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Trengwainton Garden and Mounts Bay Academy.
Trengwainton Garden
Garden
Photo: N p holmes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trengwainton is a garden situated in Madron, near Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK, which has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1961. The garden is noted for its collection of exotic trees and shrubs and offers views over Mount's Bay and The Lizard. Trengwainton Garden is situated 2,400 feet southwest of St Maddern’s Church, Madron.
Mounts Bay Academy
School
Mounts Bay Academy is an academy school in Heamoor, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK. The school teaches 1022 11- to 16-year-old students. Mounts Bay Academy is situated 2,200 feet southeast of St Maddern’s Church, Madron.
Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel
Ruins
Photo: Malcolm Kewn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel is a scheduled Ancient Monument in the civil parish of Madron, Cornwall, UK. Madron Well Chapel is the ruin of a 12th- or 14th-century chapel dedicated to St Madern and occupies the site of a much older Celtic structure. Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel is situated 4,000 feet northwest of St Maddern’s Church, Madron.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Heamoor and Madron and Sancreed.
Heamoor
Village
Photo: Jowaninpensans, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Heamoor is a village in Cornwall, England. Formerly a secondary settlement of the village of Madron, Heamoor is situated approximately one-and-a half kilometres northwest of Penzance town centre.
Madron and Sancreed
Madron and Sancreed are the two landlocked parishes on the Penwith peninsula in West Cornwall.
Tremethick Cross
Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tremethick Cross is a hamlet around a crossroads in the parish of Madron, in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. Between 1863 and 1884, the A3071 road, was a turnpike serving the mining industry at St Just for the transport of ore to the nearest harbour in Penzance.
St Maddern’s Church, Madron
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Madron, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.13162° or 50° 7′ 54″ northLongitude
-5.56479° or 5° 33′ 53″ westOpen location code
9C2P4CJP+J3OpenStreetMap ID
way 453776364OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q6728662
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In Other Languages
From Cornish to Welsh—“St Maddern’s Church, Madron” goes by many names.
- Cornish: “Eglos Madern”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه ابرشيه مادرون”
- Welsh: “Eglos Madern”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “St Maddern’s Church, Madron”. Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.