Church of St Mary Magdalene
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, HIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125896
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, HIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125896
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, HIGH ROAD
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 MAGDALENE, HIGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wisbech St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 39755 03296
Details
TF 30 SE WISBECH ST. MARY HIGH ROAD 13/86 (North Side) Guyhirne
Church of St. Mary Magdalene
II
Parish church, designed by Sir G.G. Scott in early English style and built 1878. Wire cut gault brick. West end of nave surmounted by gabled bell-cote above a foiled vesica shaped window and three lancets with double chamfered reveals. Nave of three bays, divided by two stage buttressing, each with a similar lancet, except for a round window with cinquefoil cusping above open-sided south porch of wood with a gabled, tiled roof. Two-centred arch to south doorway. East window of chancel is round with a smaller foiled circle within and radial colonettes to outer circle. Below, three chamfered lancets. Interior. Chancel arch two-centred and of two chamfered orders, inner on shafts with moulded capitals and springing from corbels carved with angels. Chancel has original tiled floor. Two centred, chamfered arches to openings to north vestry and south chapel. Pulpit of limestone, octagonal on stem with Purbeck marble shafts to angles. Font. Tapering octagonal bowl in early English style on a Purbeck marble stem with eight subsidiary detached shafts, also of marble and each with moulded capital and base. VCH (Cambs) Vol.IV, p.236. Pevsner (Buildings of England), p.399.
Listing NGR: TF3975503296
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48179
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 236
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 399
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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