Church of St. Mary Magdalen

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STOKE TALMAGE Church of St. Mary Magdalen

18/07/63

GV II

Church. C13, rebuilt 1758: south porch, vestry and north aisle added 1860 by George Gilbert Scott: east window of 1907 by G.E. Coleridge. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; gabled mid C19 tile roof. Chancel and single-aisled nave with west tower. Gothic Revival style.

Perpendicular-style east window flanked by offset buttresses. South chancel wall has pointed trefoil-headed lancet. North chapel and north aisle have plain two-light Y-tracery windows; pointed lancet in west end of north aisle. Two similar Y-tracery windows in south wall of nave. Gabled south porch with pointed double-chamfered doorway. West tower has pointed and part-blocked roll-moulded doorway with impost blocks: reset C13 lancets.

Interior: mid C19 oak reredos and Decorated-style piscina. Mid C19 chancel arch has jamb shafts with re-used early C13 foliate capitals. Nave has mid C19 pulpit, lectern and pews, and brasses to John Adeane (d.1594) and wife, and John Petre (d.1589) and wife. Three bay arcade to north aisle, which has C17 oak carving re-used as Georgian Royal Arms. Octagonal mid C19 pulpit in west tower. Stained glass: fine figures of c.1850 by Hardman in chancel east and side windows. In south window of nave is window by Morris and Son, 1904.

Listing NGR: SU6782099272