St Mawes Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; St Mose; St Marys; St Maudet; Pendinas; La Vousa

In the civil parish of St Just In Roseland.
In the historic county of Cornwall (Modern Authority of Cornwall, 1974 county of Cornwall).

Multi-lobed artillery castle, built 1540-43, at St Mawes, on a broad headland flanking the east side of the Carrick Roads, the mouth of the River Fal. The wider curtilage of the artillery castle incorporates a broadly contemporary shoreline blockhouse.

This site has been described as a;
Artillery Fort.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This site is a Grade 1 listed building protected by law*. (Images of England number 63079)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SW84113275

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 428635

• Web site links
  • http://www.castlexplorer.co.uk/england/st-mawes/st-mawes.php
    http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_south/204/stmawescastle.htm
    http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/castles/st%20mawes%20castle.htm
    http://www.touruk.co.uk/castles/castle_St_Mawes.htm
    http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_south/204/stmawescastle.htm
    http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/conProperty.307
    http://www.itraveluk.co.uk/content/433.html
• Books
  • Duffy, Michael, 1999, 'Coastal Defences and Garrisons 1480-1914' in Kain, R. and Ravenhill, W., Historical Atlas of South-West England (University of Exeter Press) p158-60
    Salter, Mike, 1999, The Castles of Devon and Cornwall (Malvern) p35-7
    Saunders, Andrew, 1997, Channel Defences (London; Batsford/English Heritage)
    Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p22
    Spreadbury, I. D., 1984, Castles in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (Redruth)
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p75
    Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p289-90
    Price, M. and H., 1980, Castles of Cornwall (Bossiney Books) p33-44
    Morley, B.M., 1976, Henry VIII and the Development of Coastal Defence (London) p13-4, 18-9, 40
    Pevsner, Nikolaus; revised by Enid Radcliffe, 1970, Buildings of England: Cornwall (Harmondsworth) p189-90
    Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p792-3
    Oman, Charles W.C., 1926, Castles (1978 edn Beetham House: New York) p113-5
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
    Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p12-13
    Oliver, S.P., 1984, Pendennis and St Mawes: an historical sketch of two Cornish castles (Redruth: Dyllansow Truran) [facsimile of the 1875 edition]
    Lysons, D. and S., 1814, Magna Britannia Vol3 Cornwall [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=403]
    Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol1 p28
• Guidebooks
  • Linzey, Dick, 1999, Pendennis and St Mawes (English Heritage)
    Morley, B., 1988, The castles of Pendennis & St Mawes (English Heritage)
    Anon. 1985, Pendennis and St Mawes castles (London. English Heritage)
    Anon, 1963, Pendennis and St Mawes castles (HMSO)
    1947, Saint Mawes Castle [guide] (Ministry of Works, Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings)
    Drake, 1934, Saint Mawes Castle (HMSO)
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/cornwalleng.html#cornwall1]
    Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p73, 75, 86