Ten thousand bulbs lit up Mawgan Church with a golden hue over the weekend when it hosted its popular daffodil festival.

The blooms were arranged over two days by a team of 30 volunteers at the 15th century church, which has now hosted the biennial fundraising festival six times.

The flowers were once again supplied for free by Manaccan daffodil growers R H Scrimshaw and Sons Limited.

Churchwarden Lindsay Hockley said: “It took a team of 30 volunteers two days to get them all arranged.

“They were delivered as straight green pencils about a week before the festival began, so much of the effort was to ensure they bloomed on time.

“For two days and nights we had to leave the heating on constantly in the church, it was more like a sauna, which was quite unusual to say the least.

“We saw around 1,200 visitors over the weekend, which was wonderful, with Saturday being the much busier day due to the nicer weather.”

One unusual piece of the display was crafted specially to celebrate the long-awaited roof repairs and improvements at the church, which are due to begin next Monday. To mark the occasion, six hard hats, donated by the construction company due to undertake the work, were filled with daffodil bulbs.

The three-day festival, which ran from Saturday through to Monday, welcomed various musicians to provide accompaniment for the festival, which was opened with a blessing by Canon Lesley Walker and included a special evening service on the Sunday.

They included Christine Robertson playing dulcimer and singing medieval and folk music, Thraw’ed Together, Maen Voes Choir, Gwel Trencrom Singers, Rachel Cook and Andrew Woods playing organ and Richard Collington playing lute and classical guitar.

Hot drinks and cakes were sold in the adjacent Vyvyan Coachhouse each day, along with pasties and soup at lunchtimes.