St. Mawes Castle St. Mawes Castle pads the eastern entrance towards the estuary referred to as Carrick Streets. It's the companion of Pendennis and just contemporary. Both of these Henrician seaside forts offer some interesting contrasts. In every a squat round tower may be the chief feature, but rather than getting a square residential block smacked on before it, the St. Mawes tower is elaborated by three attached semi-circular bastions with parapets in a lower level. A unique stair turret caps the tower. St. Mawes is unlike Pendennis but similar to Henry VIII's forts in becoming low laying and therefore in a position to challenge enemy shipping at close quarters. Both forts share Henry's other fortifications, the rounded merlons made to deflect cannon balls, the big embrasures for guns at a number of levels, and also the emplacements for drawbridge and portcullis, the second showing the forts were meant to offer some resistance at close quarters when the enemy ever arrived. Over the entrance we come across again a panel from the royal arms. Around the rocks while watching castle is really a semi-circular blockhouse matching the main one in Pendennis, possibly erected being an emergency fortification prior to the real work began. When it comes to size, the forts would have been created as equals as well as their early governors were bitter rivals. Using the Elizabethan enlargement of Pndennis, however, St. Mawes shrank right into a subsidiary role. Its part within the Civil War typifies this. In comparison with Pendennis Castle's heroic stance, the royalist governor here sensibly judged the castle to become indefensible in the land and surrendered with no shot being fired. The insignificance of St. Mawes has permitted it to outlive in an exceedingly unspoiled condition. Not just has got the stonework experienced hardly any, but within there's an unexpected quantity of original woodwork.