Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade I listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1959. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Mary Magdalene

WRENN ID
crooked-gravel-swallow
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 December 1959
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Mary Magdalene, the Green, Pulham Market
OS grid reference
TM 197 860
Coordinates
52.42852, 1.23016
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary Magdalene is a parish church located in Pulham Market, primarily dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. It is constructed of flint and features slate and pantile roofs. The church comprises a nave with a clerestory, a chancel, north and south aisles, a north porch, and a large west tower. The tower is notable for its four stages, adorned with flushwork panelling on the battlements, buttresses, and base. The windows in the aisles and clerestory are in the Perpendicular style. The north porch also features flushwork panelling. The chancel windows have been renewed. Inside, there are five bay arcades, a 15th-century nave roof with arched braces and collar-beams, and the east bay of the nave roof is panelled with restored colour decoration. The aisle roofs from the 15th century also have arched braces. Additionally, there is a 15th-century screen in the tower arch and stone bench ends from the same period.

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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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