Church Of St Mary Magdalene

Anglican church. Built between 1873 and 1874, with the chancel added between 1876 and 1877, and a vestry and organ chamber added around 1880. The vestry was enlarged in 1922 by F.E. Howard of Oxford. The architect is not known. The church is constructed of limestone rubble with Bathstone dressings.

The church comprises a nave with a south porch, a chancel, a vestry on the north side of the chancel, and an organ chamber on the south side of the chancel. A tower over the porch was originally planned but never built.

The architectural style is Victorian Gothic Early English. The nave has two- and three-light lancet windows with hoodmoulds, and a three-light lancet at the west end. Angle buttresses have weathered set-offs, and a stone apex cross sits over the west gable. A large porch on the south side features a moulded, depressed, two-centred arch over the west doorway, with a corbelled inner arch and a stone bellcote above. The chancel features a corbel table, two two-light lancet windows to the north and south, and a three-light plate-tracery east window. The organ chamber on the south side of the chancel has two small lancets and an oculus in the gable above. The vestry on the north side of the chancel has a shouldered arch east doorway, with a flat-roof extension added in 1922 in the west angle.

The interior has plastered walls and an arch-braced nave roof. A moulded, two-centred chancel arch is supported by pairs of colonnettes. The chancel ceiling is panelled with moulded ribs, painted with the initials of the Apostles in Gothic lettering. A carved wooden screen features a rood cross, altar rail, choir stalls, panelling, a lectern, a pulpit, and a bench at the west end. An octagonal carved stone font is also present, along with statue niches on either side of the east window with crocketed spires. The vestry door has a crocketed ogee hoodmould. The organ is housed under an arch of the organ chamber with painted pipes. Early 20th-century stained glass in the chancel commemorates Julia Hodgkinson, who died in 1924.

This is a Victorian Gothic church notable for its richly decorated and furnished interior, largely dating from the early 20th century.