Church of St Mary Magdalene
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CHURCH AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221773
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CHURCH AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221773
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CHURCH AVENUE
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, CHURCH AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Ashfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 48940 58959
Details
SK 45 NE SUTTON IN ASHFIELD CHURCH AVENUE
(north side)
Church of St Mary Magdalene
3/29 (formerly listed under
Alfreton Road)
4.6.80
G.V. II*
Parish church. C12, C13, C14, C15, C19. Chancel rebuilt 1854.
Restored and aisles enlarged 1867. Coursed and squared rubble
and dressed stone. Ashlar dressings. Gabled and lean-to slate
roofs. Plinth, chamfered eaves, coped gables, some with crosses.
West tower, nave, north and south aisles, organ chamber, vestry,
chancel, south porch. Tower and spire, c.1395, 2 stages, has
moulded and chamfered plinth, chamfered string course, coved
eaves with spouts and crenellated parapet. To west, 2 diagonal
buttresses, 4 setoffs. To east, 2 plain buttresses engaged with
aisles. South side has stair lights. West side has moulded
doorway with hood moulds. Above it, a lancet. Second stage has
4 double lancet openings with chamfered and rebated angular-
headed reveals. Set back octagonal spire with weathercock. Nave
clerestory, 4 bays, has on each side 4 ogee headed double
lancets, C19, with square headed reveals and hood moulds. North
aisle with continuous organ chamber, 6 bays, has 6 buttresses and
6 untraceried double ogee lancets with square headed reveals and
hood moulds. South aisle, 5 bays, has 4 buttresses. 4 lancets
similar to north aisle. East end has restored C14 ogee double
lancet with flowing tracery and hood mould. Vestry, mid C19, 2
bays, has flat roof with coped parapet. North side has 3
buttresses and 2 ogee double lancets with hood moulds. East side
has moulded doorway flanked by single ogee double lancets.
Chancel, 2 bays, has at east end triple lancet, Decorated style,
1907, with hood mould and stops. South side has off-centre
pointed doorway flanked by single C14 double lancets with hood
moulds. Gabled south porch, mid C19, has 2 diagonal buttresses.
Simple moulded doorway with hood mould. Interior has wooden
benches and common rafter roof. Inner doorway, double chamfered
and rebated, restored, has hood mould. Chamfered and rebated
tower arch, C14, has traceried crested timber war memorial
screen, c.1920. North arcade, C12, 4 bays, restored, has 3 round
piers with simple bases and waterleaf capitals. Triple shaft
east respond with stiff leaf capital and masks. Chamfered and
rebated arches. South arcade, C13, has round piers, those to
west with octagonal capitals. Arches similar to north arcade.
Nave has principal rafter roof with arch braces and struts, 1867.
North and south aisles have arch braced lean-to roofs with
moulded corbels. North aisle west end has 3 re-set corbels.
North side has stained glass windows 1907, 1921, 1922, 1928.
East end has chamfered archway with traceried screen, 1907.
South aisle east end has C19 stained glass window flanked by
single figure brackets. South side has to east, C14 cusped
piscina and stained glass windows 1891, 1902, 1916, 1951.
Chancel arch, C13, chamfered and moulded, has keeled responds
with water holding bases. Chancel north side has opening
contaning organ in corbelled case. East end has oak dado, 1909
and traceried panelled reredos and stained glass window, 1907.
South side windows have patterned stained glass. Fittings
include C12 pillar piscina, C19 octagonal font, traceried octagonal ashlar pulpit,
1866, and brass eagle lectern, 1900. Late C19 and mid C20 panelled stalls, desks
and benches. Mid C18 table. Memorials include Classical marble and slate tablet
with obelisk and female figure, to William Unwin, 1774. 5 brasses, C19 and C20.
Marble and alabaster tablets, 1859 and 1918. Two alabaster and mosaic war memorial
panels, c1920. Plain war memorial tablet c1945.
Listing NGR: SK4894058959
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 17 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410950
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Clay Dove, W, The Story of our Parish Church St Mary Magdalene Sutton in Ashfield, ()
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/26936
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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