Church Of St Mary Magdalene

The Church of St Mary Magdalene is a parish church with a tower dating to the mid-15th century, a south aisle built between 1532 and 1542, and a largely rebuilt nave and chancel in 1867. The church was restored in 1893, and a vestry screen was added in 1924, followed by an organ in 1924, a pulpit in 1929, and the reassembly of a medieval screen in 1929.

The church is constructed from red sandstone rubble, with coursed stone on the tower. The west end of the aisle is clad in slate, and the roofs are slate, with decorative ridge tiles to the aisle only. Crenellations mark the top of the three-stage tower, which includes a moulded plinth, full-height diagonal buttresses, moulded string courses, trefoil-headed two-light louvred bell openings, a three-light west window with angel and devil terminals to the hood mould and an angel above, and a carved hood mould to the four-centred arch head west doorway. A crenellated stair turret is located to the north-east. The south aisle has three-light cinquefoil-headed mullion windows, one on the left and two on the right side of the single-storey gabled and unbuttressed 19th-century porch, which features a pointed arch opening with colonettes and a moulded pointed arch inner doorway with a 19th-century door. A stepped buttress separates the second and third bays of the aisle. The south chancel wall is unlit, while the east window of the aisle is a three-light design and the east window of the chancel is five-light; three further three-light windows are found on the north front.

Inside, the church is rendered. A four-bay Perpendicular arcade features clustered columns with vineleaf-decorated capitals. There is no chancel arch; instead, a chamfered, semi-circular tower arch is filled by a panelled screen dated 1923, which forms part of the vestry. The church has arch-braced roofs. A 19th-century aumbry and a stone reredos are present. An organ is located in the eastern end of the south aisle, designed by Sir Niniam Comper and featuring painted Giorgionesque panels from a private house. A good Perpendicular octagonal font and a parish chest dated in studs 1772 are also present. A tablet commemorates Robert Baker, who died in 1730. A 15th-century screen from the demolished medieval church of St Audries, West Quantoxhead, fanvaulted with fragments of four friezes, six full bays and two half bays with double doors, was reassembled in 1929. The church was formerly known as the Church of St Salvyn.