Church Of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1966. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church Of St Mary Magdalene
- WRENN ID
- patient-steeple-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1966
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mary Magdalene is a Grade II listed building located on Barrow Road in St. Helen Without. It was constructed in 1855 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and features coursed and dressed limestone with a gabled stone-coped old tile roof. The church is designed in the Gothic Revival style, specifically in a late geometrical style, and includes a nave with a north porch and a chancel with a vestry.
The east end of the church has a three-light window flanked by offset buttresses. The chancel, which has two bays, and the four-bay nave feature hood moulds with head-stops over mainly two-light windows. There is a priest's door in the center of the south chancel wall and a plain door leading to the vestry. The north porch is timber-framed and has a moulded pointed doorway that frames mid-19th century double-leaf doors.
At the east gable of the nave, there is a belfry topped with a French-Gothic-style crocketed spire, which includes trefoiled lights and spandrels. Inside, the sanctuary has an encaustic tile floor, and the church contains a Gothic style communion rail and pews with carved bench ends. The chancel arch is supported by ballflower-carved corbels, and there is a plain stone pulpit along with an octagonal stone font inscribed with "suffer little children to come unto me." The chancel features a waggon roof, while the nave has a four-bay roof with curved principals and steeply-cambered collars that create a cruck effect. The church also includes mid-19th century stained glass in the east window and in the heads of three other windows, as well as 20th century memorial windows.
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