Church Of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade I listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1960. A Medieval Church.

Church Of St Mary Magdalene

WRENN ID
sacred-ember-juniper
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Country
England
Date first listed
30 May 1960
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary Magdalene is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint with ashlar and some brick dressings, topped with corrugated tile roofs. The church features a west tower, an aisleless nave with a south porch, and a former north aisle, along with a chancel. The west tower, built in the 14th century, has diagonal buttresses. The west door, inserted in the 15th or 16th century, has two deep orders with a four-centred arch and colonnettes with facetted capitals. There is a fine three-light west window in the Decorated style, featuring three mouchette and dagger soufflets, along with two-light cusped Y-traceried bell openings and a crenellated parapet.

The south wall of the nave has three Decorated two-light windows with mouchettes and daggers, while the north wall, largely from the 18th century, contains three three-light wooden Y-traceried windows that fill former arcade openings. The chancel includes a moulded priest's doorway and two two-light Decorated windows with mouchettes and daggers on the south side, one identical window on the north side, and a dripstone above a former vestry. The east window is a fine three-light design with four radiating daggers.

Inside, there is a 14th-century three-bay north arcade with internal shafts, and the quatrefoil piers are visible. The contemporary chancel arch features two wave-moulded orders on three-shaft responds with facetted capitals and intermediate filletted rolls. The tower arch is also wave-moulded and supported on half-shafts. A rood stair doorway is located to the north. Notable interior features include a 14th-century chancel piscina with a cusped ogee arch and a crocketted hood mould, a truncated horizontal cornice, and moulded responds of a former sedilia. The church has a 14th-century octagonal font with cusped panels and shields, a Jacobean font cover with a turned central baluster shaft and four cupola struts, and a 17th-century western screen with baluster shafts and carved arches.

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