Church of St Mary Magdalen is a Grade I listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1968. A Georgian Gothic Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Mary Magdalen
- WRENN ID
- high-cobalt-reed
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1968
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Georgian Gothic
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SO 84 NE 22/11, 2/11
CROOME D'ABITOT Church of St Mary Magdalen
25.03.68
GV I Church 1758 by Lancelot (Capability) Brown with interior by Robert Adam. Bath stone. Gothic. Chancel, nave and west tower all embattled. Three-stage tower with Perpendicular style traceried bell stage, battlements and pinnacles. Lowest stage is vaulted. West porch, open on three sides.
Three-window nave with niches at west and east ends, chancel with two blank windows each side and large east window. Some of the detail remarkably correct, otherwise Georgian Gothick as in the nave and chancel cornices.
INTERIOR 'pure Georgian Gothic', tall quatrefoil piers to nave and coved ceiling. Flat aisle roofs Very fine plasterwork. Panelling with quatrefoil upper panels. Adam style wooden font and communion rails. In chancel outstanding series of Coventry family monuments from 1639 onwards. Fine Gothick pulpit.
'One of the most serious (churches) of the Early Gothic Revival outside, one of the most elegant inside' (Pevsner).
Listing NGR: SO8864645034
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