Church of St Mary Magdalene
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1349345
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1349345
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CHURCH LANE
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 LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadwas
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 75496 55126
Details
SO 75 NE BROADWAS CP CHURCH LANE
3/9 Church of St Mary 29.7.59 Magdalene
GV II*
Parish church. Late C12 origin with later additions, restored by Charles Hodgson Fowler, FRIBA, c1885. Partly coursed sandstone rubble, partly sandstone ashlar, tiled roofs; timber-framed, weatherboarded bell turret. 2 bay chancel, 4 bay nave with south chapel, south porch and west extension enclosing bell turret. Predominantly Decorated style. Chancel Stonework much repaired and refaced; late C19 4-light east window; north elevation has 2 lancets; south elevation has a lancet and a late C19 flat-headed 2- light window. Nave North elevation: 2 buttresses with offsets; C16 flat- headed 2-light window at east end, 2 lancets flanking narrow, round-headed doorway and an additional lancet at west end. South elevation: lancet and C15 flat-headed 2-light window at west end. South chapel Founded in 1344. Separate roof with parapets and kneelers at gable ends; ashlar built; central and corner buttresses with gabled weatherings; east wall has 2 cusped lancets and a wheel window with mouchette tracery in gable above; two 2- light windows in south wall; all windows have hoodmoulds the returns of which continue as a string course. South porch is situated immediately west of chapel opposite the north doorway and is an 1881 replacement of former C14 porch. Timber-frame on sandstone base; gabled, tiled roof; Perpendicular style infill panels, now glazed. C13 pointed arched south doorway within deeply splayed and moulded reveals; 2 nook-shafts with foliated capitals set each side the outer capitals having the remains of heads which face each other across the doorway; hood-mould with foliated label stops. Bell turret Masonry enclosing turret of probably C13 date; buttresses at gable ends; 3 lancets in west elevation and 3 rows of close-set vertical studding in gable, 6 central panels of which are glazed; turret on square base; 4 traceried bell-chamber openings below pyramidal roof and weathercock. Interior Chancel arch removed, probably in C16. South chapel arcade of 2 bays with compound pier of 4 engaged shafts, moulded caps and bases. Nave roof C19, trusses have braced collars reinforced into tie-beam; wagon roofs to chancel and chapel. Bell- turret framework is primarily late C19 and is separated from nave by plain timber screen enclosing vestry beneath; gallery space above with Jacobean. balcony railing. Chancel floor laid with C16 tiles; piscina within cusped arch in chancel and chapel; grotesque heads on label stops of south windows in chapel; octagonal font on circular stem with scalloped top; richly carved octagonal pulpit, dated 1632, also tester. C17 pews at north west end of nave; 3 C18 wall memorials and 2 early C17 tomb slabs in chancel. Chair in chancel dated 1647; panel of medieval glass in east lancet on north side of chancel.
Listing NGR: SO7549655126
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 151691
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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