Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Mary Magdalene
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-copper-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary Magdalene, Latimer and Ley Hill, HP5 1UG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 000 988
- Coordinates
- 51.67979, -0.55394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary Magdalene, built around 1841 by E Blore, was enlarged and altered in 1867 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. This work included the addition of a further bay to the nave, north and south transepts, a chancel apse, a vestry, and an organ chamber. The church is constructed of red brick with slate roofs and some stone dressings. The east apse is designed in the Early English style, featuring a blind arcade with three lancet windows. The nave has lancet windows, with bays separated by shallow stepped buttresses. There is a north transept and vestry, as well as a south transept that includes an octagonal turret topped with a spirelet.
Inside, the chancel arch and apse arch are adorned with naturalistic foliage, and there is an alabaster altar surround. The roof is canted and supported by corbels, featuring carvings of wild flowers. The stained glass includes works by Clayton and Bell in the apse, Powell and Sons of Whitefriars on the north side of the nave, both from 1873, and a piece by Kempe from around 1892 in the south transept. The church also contains monuments dating from 1632 and 1706.
Local climate
Church of St Mary Magdalene sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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