Church of St Mary Magdalen
Church of St Mary Magdalen, Croome D'abitot
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1082581
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalen
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary Magdalen, Croome D'abitot
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1082581
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Apr-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalen
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary Magdalen, Croome D'abitot
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary Magdalen, Croome D'abitot
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Croome D'abitot
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 88646 45034
Details
SO 84 NE
22/11, 2/11
CROOME D'ABITOT
Church of St Mary Magdalen
25.03.68
GV
I
Church 1758 by Lancelot (Capability) Brown with interior by Robert Adam. Bath stone. Gothic. Chancel, nave and west tower all embattled. Three-stage tower with Perpendicular style traceried bell stage, battlements and pinnacles. Lowest stage is vaulted. West porch, open on three sides.
Three-window nave with niches at west and east ends, chancel with two blank windows each side and large east window. Some of the detail remarkably correct, otherwise Georgian Gothick as in the nave and chancel cornices.
INTERIOR 'pure Georgian Gothic', tall quatrefoil piers to nave and coved ceiling. Flat aisle roofs Very fine plasterwork. Panelling with quatrefoil upper panels. Adam style wooden font and communion rails. In chancel outstanding series of Coventry family monuments from 1639 onwards. Fine Gothick pulpit.
'One of the most serious (churches) of the Early Gothic Revival outside, one of the most elegant inside' (Pevsner).
Listing NGR: SO8864645034
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 152546
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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