Church of St Mary Magdelene is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 October 2008. Church.

Church of St Mary Magdelene

WRENN ID
dreaming-jade-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 October 2008
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mary Magdelene, Tallarn Green, Willington Worthenbury
OS grid reference
SJ 445 441
Coordinates
52.99203, -2.82728
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary Magdalene is a simple early Gothic style building constructed from rock-faced snecked red sandstone, featuring a tooled plinth and gold freestone dressings. It has a very steep shingle roof that replaced the original tiles. The church consists of a nave with an apsidal east end and a southwest porch that includes an added clock tower at its western angle. The nave has lancet windows, which are paired in the north wall, and these windows have double chamfered surrounds. The porch has a steep roof with gablets on the kneelers of the coped gable. The entrance to the porch is a double chamfered arch, with a relief figure in a quatrefoil above it and a simpler chamfered doorway made of red sandstone within. The clock tower, which is slightly battered, is clasped in the western angle of the porch and features a tiered spirelet. A vestry projects from the east end of the nave's north wall, which has a shouldered arched doorway on the west wall and a lancet window on the east.

Inside, the church has a simple undivided space that includes the nave, with steps leading up to the apsidal chancel and sanctuary. The roof is supported by timber trusses with wrought-iron ties, and the wall posts spring from stone corbels. The apse has timber ribs, and herringbone boarding is placed between the trusses and ribs. Original fittings include a pulpit that is incorporated into a low stone wall at the chancel steps, featuring low-relief panels between polished granite banded shafts and a chevron frieze. There are also choir stalls and a brass communion rail, as well as a simple bowl font at the west end, which has chevron decoration and an inscribed band, supported by clustered shafts. The stained glass includes a window by Trina Cox on the north wall of the nave, commemorating 1969, and a series of four late 19th-century windows in the apse that reflect a good late medieval tradition. The south and west windows were created by Francis Skeats, commemorating 1969 and 1975.

Local climate

Church of St Mary Magdelene receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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