Church of St Mary Magdalen
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186584
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186584
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hewelsfield and Brockweir
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 56760 02135
Details
HEWELSFIELD GENERAL SO 50 SE 6/23 Church of St Mary Magdalen 7.8.54 GV II* Anglican parish church. C12, C13, C16 and C19. Nave, north aisle, south porch, central tower, chancel, north transept. Sandstone, slate roofs. Nave has long swept-down roof on both sides, porch with coped gable, inner door early English and part C19 doors with strap hinges, over this an image niche of C12; to right of porch a 2-light C19 cusped lancet and 3-light with 2 quatrefoils. Tower squat with pyramid roof on Norman corbel table, louvred lancet over small cusped lancet, and to right a deep buttress with 3 offsets. Chancel with coped gable and cross has a cusped lancet and 2-light cusped plus carved roundel flanking a blocked priest's door, and in east end cusped 2-light C12 with quatrefoil in pale tracery. North of chancel a C15 or C16 2-light cusped window to square head. Transept east wall, 2-light cusped C14, west wall a pointed door. North aisle, 3 very small lancets, one of these a C13 window cut from a single stone. West end has small rectangular light and chamfered surround on a 2-light cusped C14 window. Interior: 4-bay nave, transitional detail arcade of double chamfer pointed arches with chevron cut to plaster edge, on round columns, C19 roof, in wall to chancel two quatrefoil openings; north aisle has curtailed broad pointed arch to transept. Crossing with flat beam C19 ceiling, low, steep pointed arch to north transept, C14 ogee-head recess in its east respond, and the arches east and west in very thick walls with broad chamfer. Chancel restored in C19, facetted ceiling. North transept has plaster barrel vault and 2 marble wall tablets of the C18. Two lofty narrow benefactors' boards and one square board standing in nave at time of survey, November 1983. (D Verey; Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970).
Listing NGR: SO5676002135
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354388
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
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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