St Mabyn Church is a Grade I listed late 15th-century Church. The church is dedicated to Saint Mabena, who was regarded in local tradition as one of the many children of Brychan, a Welsh saint and King of Brycheiniog in the 5th century.

The current church replaced an earlier one also dedicated to Mabyn. Mabyn is listed alongside several other local saints with churches dedicated to them in the 12th-century Life of Saint Nectan, suggesting that the earlier church had already been established.

A dendrochronology report gives construction dates of 1513–35 for the north aisle, 1485–1514 for the nave, and 1487–1523 for the porch. Built-in the Perpendicular style, with possible Norman origins, it consists of a chancel, nave, and north and south aisles. Rev. Granville Leveson-Gower removed several monuments in 1818 and some restoration occurred in 1884; it was re-seated and repaved in 1889. The building is of ashlar slate stone on a molded plinth and wall plate, with rag slate roofs with gable ends. The arcades each have seven four-centered arches of granite, supported by monolith granite pillars with sculpted capitals of St Stephens porcelain stone.

The tower of three stages is 85 feet in height, with a battlemented parapet and crocketed finials, the top stage is decorated with four carved figures, possibly the Four Evangelists. 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. In the south aisle is a second piscina and a priest's doorway. The font is one of Norman table-top type: it has a circular basin, hollowed in a square block decorated with a blind arcade set on a round ornamented shaft.

The earliest recorded Priest in charge was Roger de Worlegan in 1267. Charles Peters, rector 1726-75, was recognised as the finest Hebrew scholar in Europe; his Dissertation on the Book of Job was published in 1751.
The register dates from the year 1562.

A credence table that survives in the church may originally have been the panel of a tomb raised in Mabena's honour. It is possible that all her sisters had tombs erected for them.
One of the stained glass windows is a memorial to Francis John Hext, of Tredethy, who died in January 1803, and Margaret (Lang), his wife who died in March 1794.
A church clock was installed in 1950. The Belfry has a ring of eight bells that allows 5,030 changes to be rung.
The graveyard contains 12 Grade II listed headstones.

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

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