Church Of St Mary Magdalene

The Church of St Mary Magdalene in Hilton is a Grade I listed parish church. It features a 14th-century west tower and a 15th-century chancel, nave, north and south aisles, and south porch. The building is primarily constructed of pebble rubble, with some freestone, Barnack stone, and clunch dressings.

The west tower has three stages, a plinth, diagonal buttressing, and an embattled parapet. The west doorway has moulded jambs and a two-centred arch with a moulded label. The west window consists of two cinquefoil lights topped by a quatrefoil in a two-centred head with a moulded label. There are smaller, similar windows on each face of the bell chamber wall, and fragments of an earlier church are applied to the exterior of the north and west walls of the tower.

The nave roof is covered with slate and features stone copings on the gable end parapet. The clerestory has four modern windows, while the north and south aisles contain restored windows with vertical tracery, along with 15th-century splays and sills. The south porch, also from the 15th century, has a gabled roof with a moulded stone parapet. The outer doorway features two moulded orders, and the inner doorway is carved on attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases. The south doorway has a two-centred arch and moulded jambs.

The chancel has a plain tiled roof with stone coping on the gable end parapet and two partly restored 15th-century windows with four-centred heads in the south wall. The south doorway from the 14th century has wave moulded jambs and a two-centred head with a moulded label and lion mask stops. The east window is a partly restored 15th-century feature.

Inside, there is a 13th-century two-centred chancel arch with two hollow chamfered orders and square responds, each with a semi-octagonal attached shaft and moulded capitals. The nave arcades consist of four bays with two-centred arches, each featuring two moulded arches supported by attached half-round shafts with moulded capitals and bases. The 15th-century nave roof has four bays and five king post trusses, and there is a 15th-century font with a plain octagonal bowl, hollow splayed under edge, plain stem, and hollow chamfered base. A plaque from 1632 displaying the Prince of Wales feathers, originally from the now-demolished Park Farm in Hilton, is also present.