Church of St Mary Magdalen
Church of St Mary Magdalen, Fifehead Magdalen Village
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171327
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalen
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary Magdalen, Fifehead Magdalen Village
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171327
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalen
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary Magdalen, Fifehead Magdalen Village
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, Fifehead Magdalen Village
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fifehead Magdalen
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78280 21596
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
ST 72 SE
2/25
FIFEHEAD MAGDALEN
FIFEHEAD MAGDALEN VILLAGE
Church of St Mary Magdalen
4.10.60
GV
II*
Parish Church. Nave chancel and tower C14, alterations of C15 and C17, north chapel C17 or C18, alterations of C19 and restoration of 1905. Coursed, squared rubble walls with ashlar dressings and gabled, stone-slated roofs. Plan: nave, chancel, south tower incorporating porch, north chapel leading from chancel. South tower: two stages with moulded string-courses; embattled parapet; two-centred, chamfered arch with continuous jambs. Fenestration is largely of two lights under square heads and extensively restored. West window of north nave wall is C15 restored. East window of north nave wall is C17 and has chamfered, round head. Three-light C20 east chancel window. Three-light C15 west nave window under two-centred head, much restored. C14 south chancel door with chamfered two-centred head and continuous jambs. C14 north nave buttress, other buttresses C20 or much restored. South nave doorway has chamfered, two-centred head and continuous jambs. The door is dated 1637 and is of two parts, hinged at the centre. The outer door is C17 of plain boards.
Internal features: two centred, chamfered chancel arch with continuous jambs and flat soffit; chamfered, segmental chapel arch; C14 piscina under two-centred head in chancel; ribbed barrel-vaults to nave and chancel; font with small C15 octagonal stone bowl with trefoiled panels on C18 gadrooned and fluted plinth; C19/C20 seating and pulpit; main font C20; various C18 and C19 monuments; particularly important is monument to the Newman family on north wall of the chapel, c.1750 in coloured marbles with busts and portrait medallions together with foliate brackets, wreaths etc.
RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p 19/20, no 1.
Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 2O3/4.
Listing NGR: ST7828021596
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102672
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 19-20
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 203-204
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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