Church of St Mary Magdalene

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BAUNTON BAUNTON VILLAGE SP 00 SW 9/24 Church of St Mary Magdalene 26.11.58

GV II*

Anglican parish church. C12 and Perpendicular; restored 1876. Nave; limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins and ashlar parapet. Chancel; coursed squared and dressed limestone. Small C12 nave with a projecting C15 porch; C12 chancel with C19 vestry at right angles on the north. Nave south wall; one Perpendicular hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned window with cinquefoil-headed lights. Oval memorial plaque (probably C18) to the right with an almost illegible inscription. Studded plank door to the left (within the porch) with Tudor closing ring, escutcheon and hinges within a hollow-moulded Tudor-arched surround; C19 buttressing at the west end of the nave. Decorated 2-light west window with cinquefoil-headed lights and hood. Nave north wall; restored Early English 2-light window with plate tracery and hood. Projecting lean-to stair turret (formerly giving access to the rood screen (see interior) to the left. C15 parapet with moulded string and roll-moulded coping. Chancel south wall; single C19 two-light pointed window with cinquefoil-headed lights and a hood. Single similar window in the north wall. No east window. Gabled bell- hanging for 2 bells at the west gable end of the nave. Stepped gable-end coping. Three upright stone cross finials. Projecting Perpendicular gabled porch with pointed-arched entrance with hollow and flat-chamfered mouldings and hood. Stone bench seats within porch. Small square niche in the west wall. Two C18 ledgers in the stone flag floor the best preserved being to Henry Stephens, died 1728 and Elizabeth his wife, died 1723. Scraped interior with a 3-bay nave and 3-bay chancel. C19-early C20 roof trusses to the nave and chancel. The roof trusses to the chancel have arch-braced collar beams, and king posts and curved struts. The trusses in the nave have braced tie beams and king posts with curving struts. Red tile and plank flooring to the nave. Encaustic tiling to the chancel. Two flat-chamfered 4- centred arched doorways, one above the other (now blocked) in the north-wall close to the junction of the nave and chancel, formerly giving access to a Perpendicular rood screen. Trefoil-headed piscina in the north wall of the chancel. Early mutilated trefoil- headed piscina with credence shelf in the south-east corner of the chancel. C19 piscina in the north wall of the chancel. Fixtures and fittings; polygonal stone font (probably C16) inside the south door resting on a C12 cylindrical font: Wooden pulpit incorporating some C17 carved oak panels including four pierced arcaded panels. Early C20 pews. C20 wooden communion rails. Part of the former Perpendicular rood screen with tracery and linen-fold panelling has been incorporated into the reredos. Fine C14 wall painting (c3m wide by 4m high) of St Christopher on the nave north wall. St. Christopher is depicted wading through a stream, on the east bank is a hermit with a lantern and church, on the west a seated female figure, at the top is a landscape of trees, churches and a windmill. In a frame east of the south doorway is a complete C15 embroidered altar frontal, composed of alternate strips of red and yellow silk embroidered with 17 double-headed eagles in silver thread, at the centre is a representation of the crucifixion with St Mary and St John, below which is a rebus of a name comprising a golden eagle gripping a white ass above a golden barrel from which issues two flowering branches. (David Verey, The Buildings of England: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SP0216904674

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Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)

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