Parish Church Of Saint Mary Magdalen is a Grade II* listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. A Medieval Church.
Parish Church Of Saint Mary Magdalen
- WRENN ID
- gilded-moat-pearl
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalen is a Grade II* listed building, dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. It is constructed from brown cobblestones with ashlar dressings and features slated roofs. The church comprises a chancel, south vestry, nave, south aisle, and west tower. The chancel, which is from the 14th century, has a 19th-century east window and two 14th-century two-light windows on the northeast and southeast, with restored tracery. The north doorway includes 19th-century stonework, while the northwest window is a three-light window dating from around 1500. Inside, there is a 14th-century two-bay arcade that originally opened onto a south chapel but now leads to a late 19th-century vestry. The chancel arch was reworked in the 19th century.
The nave features an early 14th-century three-bay south arcade. The north wall has two 14th-century windows, a 14th-century doorway, and a late 15th-century three-light window similar to that in the chancel. The south aisle's south wall contains three 15th-century square-headed three-light windows and a blocked 14th-century doorway, while the west wall also has a square-headed three-light window. The plain parapets are above the blocks.
The 15th-century west tower is not divided into stages and has buttresses at the northeast and southwest angles that rise to an embattled parapet. The west doorway is topped by three windows, each different on each floor, and the other elevations feature windows only for the belfry.
Inside, there is a 14th-century octagonal font on a chamfered shaft supported by four octagonal columns. The chancel contains a panelled altar tomb for Roger Hunt, who died in 1438, adorned with shields and a brass plate. The nave's north wall features a plain 14th-century recessed tomb with a mutilated female effigy, and there are remains of a road stair to the southeast of the nave. A 15th-century rood screen dado consists of six panels, each painted with a figure of a saint, though all are mutilated. The church also has 19th and 20th-century pews and roofs.
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