Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II listed building in the Harlow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1981. Church.
Church of St Mary Magdalene
- WRENN ID
- tenth-spire-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harlow
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1981
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary Magdalene, Church Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 472 084
- Coordinates
- 51.75539, 0.13235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary Magdalene, dated 1893, is constructed of coursed pebbles with freestone dressings and quoins. It features a nave, a lower chancel, and a west tower topped with a shingled, parapetted spire. The tower has an embattled parapet above a moulded stone string course, which includes a carved head at each corner and two on each face. The south door at the base of the tower is designed in the Perpendicular style. The nave has three perpendicular windows on the south side, each with cinquefoiled lights beneath quatrefoiled heads. The chancel contains two sets of cinquefoiled windows. Stone finial crosses adorn the east gables of both the nave and chancel, and the roofs are covered with red machine-made tiles.
Local climate
Church of St Mary Magdalene sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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