Church of St Mary Magdalen
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN, ELMTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335409
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN, ELMTON ROAD
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- Date:
- 2004-08-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/13070/10
- Rights:
- © Mr John G Hinchcliffe. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335409
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN, ELMTON 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 MAGDALEN, ELMTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Bolsover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elmton with Creswell
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 52572 74295
Details
SK 57 SW PARISH OF ELMTON WITH CRESWELL ELMTON ROAD,CRESWELL
5/121 (South Side)
Church of St Mary
Magdalene
II
Parish church. 1899, aisles added in 1914, tower in 1927, all by LAmbler, for the
Duke of Portland. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with chamfered
copings to gables and parapets. Nave with lean-to aisles, north-west tower, west
narthex, chancel with north chapel and vestry. Chamfered plinth. The tower has tall
gabletted angle buttresses. West doorway with moulded arch and hoodmould on foliage
stops. Pair of plank doors. On the north side is a 2-light window with reticulation
unit. Inscribed stone below with the date of the erection of the tower. At first
floor level to south, west and north are flat-arched 2-light windows with cusped ogee
lights. Large paired bell-openings in each direction, each one of two cusped ogee
lights. Stair turret in the north-west angle has four tiers of small lancets on three
sides. Four-bay north aisle divided by buttresses with two set-offs. Each bay has a
3-light window with through mullions and ogee tracery to the outer lights. Gabled
bay to the left has a 2-light window with reticulation unit. Moulded doorway to the
vestry. Unequal twin-gabled east elevation has a 2-light window with reticulation
unit to the lower part and a circular window of two traceried ovals. Foundation
stone below dated 1899. The south side of the chancel is of two bays divided by a
buttress with two set-offs. Two-light windows with reticulation units. South aisle
has a similar 2-light east window and a doorway with plain chamfered arch. Four-bay
south elevation matching that to the north. Flat-roofed west narthex has a diagonal
buttress at the corner and flat-arched 2-light windows to west and south, with
cusped ogee lights. West entrance has moulded arch and pair of plank doors.
Interior: Four-bay arcades have single chamfered arches without capitals. Moulded
chancel arch on semi-octagonal responds. King post roof with arched tie-beams on
corbels. Early C20 timber furnishings; pews, choir stalls, communion rails, altar with
carved panels, dado and reredos. War memorial chapel on the north side has a carved
reredos. Octagonal Dec style font.
Listing NGR: SK5257274295
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, 25 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79291
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 25 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/14182
War Memorials Online, accessed 25 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/14184
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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