Church Of St Mary Magdalen

HEWELSFIELD GENERAL SO 50 SE 6/23 Church of St Mary Magdalen 7.8.54 GV II* Anglican parish church. C12, C13, C16 and C19. Nave, north aisle, south porch, central tower, chancel, north transept. Sandstone, slate roofs. Nave has long swept-down roof on both sides, porch with coped gable, inner door early English and part C19 doors with strap hinges, over this an image niche of C12; to right of porch a 2-light C19 cusped lancet and 3-light with 2 quatrefoils. Tower squat with pyramid roof on Norman corbel table, louvred lancet over small cusped lancet, and to right a deep buttress with 3 offsets. Chancel with coped gable and cross has a cusped lancet and 2-light cusped plus carved roundel flanking a blocked priest's door, and in east end cusped 2-light C12 with quatrefoil in pale tracery. North of chancel a C15 or C16 2-light cusped window to square head. Transept east wall, 2-light cusped C14, west wall a pointed door. North aisle, 3 very small lancets, one of these a C13 window cut from a single stone. West end has small rectangular light and chamfered surround on a 2-light cusped C14 window. Interior: 4-bay nave, transitional detail arcade of double chamfer pointed arches with chevron cut to plaster edge, on round columns, C19 roof, in wall to chancel two quatrefoil openings; north aisle has curtailed broad pointed arch to transept. Crossing with flat beam C19 ceiling, low, steep pointed arch to north transept, C14 ogee-head recess in its east respond, and the arches east and west in very thick walls with broad chamfer. Chancel restored in C19, facetted ceiling. North transept has plaster barrel vault and 2 marble wall tablets of the C18. Two lofty narrow benefactors' boards and one square board standing in nave at time of survey, November 1983. (D Verey; Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970).

Listing NGR: SO5676002135