The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade I listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1966. A Medieval Church.

The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene

WRENN ID
seventh-buttress-shade
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Wealden
Constituency
Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1966
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, Wartling
OS grid reference
TQ 657 091
Coordinates
50.8582, 0.35411
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade I listed building located in Wartling Village. It is constructed of stone rubble and features a tiled roof. The church comprises a chancel, a south transept, a nave with a north aisle, and small weather-boarded bell-turret at the west end, along with north and south porches. The chancel and nave date back to the 13th century, while the east wall of the chancel and its buttresses were rebuilt around 1800. The north aisle is from the 14th century, and it is likely that the bell-turret, which is weather-boarded and topped with a shingled spire featuring a weather-vane dated 1781, also dates from this period. The south aisle was added in the 15th century, and the south porch is dated 1737, while the north porch is from the 19th century. Inside, the chancel houses a monument by John Bacon dedicated to a member of the Curteis family of Windmill Hill Place. The church also features an 18th-century pulpit and box pews, along with late Georgian wall tablets commemorating the Curteis family.

Local climate

The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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