Church of St Mary Magdalene
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, MILTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1160998
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, MILTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1160998
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, MILTON 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, MILTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Campbell Park
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 87849 41221
Details
SP 84 SW WOOLSTONE CUM WILLEN MILTON ROAD, WILLEN
2/128 Church of St. Mary Magdalene
17.11.66
GV I
Parish Church. 1678 by Robert Hooke for Dr. Busby, headmaster of Westminster School. W. tower, nave and C19 apse. Red brick with stone dressings, plinth coping, chamfered quoins, architraves and cills to windows, moulded cornices. Copper roofs. The tower has two main stages, the upper with stone Corinthian pilasters at angles supporting entablature and parapet with stone pineapples on plinths at corners, each face has a tall arched upper window over a smaller segmental headed window. The lower stage has chamferedquoins and large recessed arched doorway on ground floor approached by a flight of semi-circular stone steps and a round window above the doorway. Flanking the tower are one storey sections with window on outer face and parapet on W. side swept up to tower with pineapple on outer corner. The nave is pedimented at E. end with bull's eye window in tympanum and has three tall arched windows on N. and S. sides. The apse, added in 1862, is of similar materials and has three similar windows. The interior has elaborate plaster decoration, a panelled dado and pews, the floor of the nave has a diagonal pattern of white stone and black tiles. The contemporary pulpit on the S. side of the nave has been slightly altered and the reading desk is supported on an elaborate panel of wrought iron. The organ case is probably contemporary. The font consists of a bowl of white marble carved with cherubs heads, and drapery standing on a green Irish marble baluster and an ogee shaped wooden cover carved with swags of fruit and flowers with a vase finial. RCHM II. p.330. MON.1.
Listing NGR: SP8784941221
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 45914
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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