Church of St Mary Magdalene
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CALDECOTE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347341
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CALDECOTE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347341
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CALDECOTE 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 MAGDALENE, CALDECOTE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Caldecote
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 23654 38429
Details
TL 23 NW CALDECOTE CALDECOTE ROAD (North east side) Caldecote
3/81 Church of 27.5.68 St. Mary Magdalene
GV II* Church, now redundant. C14-15. Clunch and flint rubble; some brick. Small building with nave and chancel undivided and a 2-stage W tower. The tower has buttressed lower stage. Plain parapet. Late C14 ground and upper floor 2-light windows. C15 S porch has arched door in moulded square frame and a cinquefoiled window on each side wall. Embattled parapet to porch, nave and chancel. In S nave wall is a 3-light C15 window with depressed arch and 3 cinquefoiled lancets; 6 cinquefoiled lancets in tympanum. Single square-headed cinquefoiled lancet to right. Restored S chancel window. E window is similar to 3-light nave window. N nave wall shows C18 brickwork and a C15 arched door frame. Interior: canopied and crocketed stoup in porch. In nave is an unusually rich C15 octagonal font with traceried and cusped panels and shields and foliage under the bowl. Some C15 nave benches and an incomplete kneeling figure of Rector William Makesey (d.1424). C15 decorative roundel in E window. (Pevsner (1977)).
Listing NGR: TL2365438429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162212
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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