Church of Our Lady and St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II* listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of Our Lady and St Mary Magdalene
- WRENN ID
- drifting-rubblework-umber
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Our Lady and St Mary Magdalene, Callington Road, Tavistock
- OS grid reference
- SX 474 739
- Coordinates
- 50.54517, -4.1542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Our Lady and St Mary Magdalene, formerly known as Fitsford Church, is a Roman Catholic church designed by Henry Clutton in 1865 and gifted by the Duke of Bedford. This large building is constructed in the Neo-Transitional Style using Hurdwick stone and features slate roofs. It has a nave with a lower chancel, a clerestorey, transepts, and a nearly isolated south-west tower topped with a spire and crockets. Below the tower is a porch with an iron gate featuring intersecting circles. The interior is plain, with the nave supported by five round-headed arches and a stone circular lectern adorned with a pattern of intersecting circles. The church occupies an important hillside position.
Local climate
Church of Our Lady and St Mary Magdalene sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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