Church of St Mary Magdalene

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WEST TISTED Church of St Mary Magdalene

(Formerly listed as WEST TISTED WEST TISTED Church of St Mary Magdalene)

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Parish church. C11, C13, C14, C15, 1750 and 1848. Flint walls and tiled roof. Single-cell early Norman church, extended eastwards in 1848, to form a new chancel and a small north vestry. South porch of 1750, and western bell turret above a timber frame. Plain tile roof, the bell turret with a pyramid roof and boarded sides. The walls are of flint with stone dressings, indicating a small westward extension which has a C14 west window of two cusped lights below a quatrefoil, on the north side a Norman door (now filled) and a cusped lancet (C13), a small early Norman window (filled) west of the south porch and a coupled perpendicular window east of the porch. The Victorian chancel follows the style, with two coupled lights on the south side and a three-light perpendicular east window. The porch is of brickwork, with a gable, cambered arch, and a plaque inscribed 'The Gift of Magdalen College 1750'; within, is a plain Gothic doorway (C13) with a stoop in the jamb.

Interior: plain, with C15 piscina, having a trefoil arch and a credence (now in the nave), a plain circular font, a Jacobean altar table, panelled sanctuary, cambered tie-beams (some with king posts), and a brass chandelier. There are some modest wall monuments, of the late C17 and the C18.