CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN

CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1057061
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1057061
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN, MAIN STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN, MAIN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stocklinch
National Grid Reference:: ST 38302 17187

Details

STOCKLINCH CP MAIN STREET (East side) ST3817

6/100 Church of St Mary Magdalen 4.2.58

GV I

Anglican parish church. C13 and later. Ham stone rubble with ashlar dressings, chancel partly cut and squared work; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables, continuous; small bellcote at west end. Two-cell plan of 3-small-bay chancel and 3-bay nave, with north-east vestry and south porch. Chancel plain, the south wall apparently rebuilt: east window a 3-light flamboyant traceried window with moulded label; small 2-light early C14 flat headed window without label in north wall; in south wall a larger 3-light version, very early Perpendicular with moulded label having deep drops, not stops, and east of this a simple chamfered pointed-arch doorway. Nave has angled corner buttresses at west end: on north side a C17/C18 single light window with hoodmould, then a 2-light C14 or early C15 traceried window in hollowed recess, and at west end the gallery doorway, restored, approached by a simple stone staircase with wrot-iron handrail; the west window a 3-light C15 traceried window in hollowed recess with headstop label, and below a pointed-arched west doorway; without label; the south wall has another 2-light C15 window east of the porch: the bell turret simply rectangular on plan, with pitched stone canopy, 3 semi-circular arched through-arches east to west for bells, with bells hung on wheels. South porch possibly C15: plinth stone slab roof with plain gable ending with block sundial and ball finial, inscribed with motto "Redeeme the time'; moulded 4-centered outer archway; inside a C15 pointed-arched doorway; the ceiling based on straight stone 'rafters'. North east vestry probably a C18 addition; very simple, with pointed arched doorway in north gable, and a 2-light leaded casement window in west wail. Inside, little work later than C18. Chancel has arched-braced collar-trussed roof with elaborate scarfed joints, probably C17, with plaster panelled ceiling; east window has rere-arch; C19 doorway into vestry, and small organ. Chancel arch of C15 to full width, shafts with hollows to jambs. Nave has a C17 timber ribbed vaulted ceiling with carved diamond shape bosses, and at rear a C18 gallery, with dentilled beam cornice moulding, four rectangular fielded panels and a semi-circular arched centre panel with a vernacular painting of a kingly figure composing the music to 3 Halleluyahs. Fittings include a C13 ogee-arched piscina, an early C17 Communion rail, a C17 altar table and a C18 style reredos panelling; choirstalls and pews of 1908, but in C17 style with overlap unseasoned boards, but one C18 box pew with fielded panels survives; C17 panelled timber pulpit with door, moulded tester above, and reading desk in front; font of C12 or C13, a fluted circular bowl on turned base. Fine undated hatchment board over south doorway. Above chancel arch 2 corbel heads, possibly to carry the lentern veil. Monument in chancel to Revd James Upton, died 1844, black and white marble with colouring. (Pevsner, N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958 - but read the description for St Mary Stocklinch Ottersey, as the two are transposed).

Listing NGR: ST3829817185

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Legacy System number:: 264002
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.