Church of St Mary Magdalene
Church of St Mary Magdalene
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1351153
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06197/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1351153
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- East Hampshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- West Tisted
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 65019 29211
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
SU 62 NE
9/1
WEST TISTED
Church of St Mary Magdalene
(Formerly listed as WEST TISTED WEST TISTED Church of St Mary Magdalene)
31.7.63
II*
Parish church. C11, C13, C14, C15, 1750 and 1848. Flint walls and tiled roof. Single-cell early Norman church, extended eastwards in 1848, to form a new chancel and a small north vestry. South porch of 1750, and western bell turret above a timber frame. Plain tile roof, the bell turret with a pyramid roof and boarded sides. The walls are of flint with stone dressings, indicating a small westward extension which has a C14 west window of two cusped lights below a quatrefoil, on the north side a Norman door (now filled) and a cusped lancet (C13), a small early Norman window (filled) west of the south porch and a coupled perpendicular window east of the porch. The Victorian chancel follows the style, with two coupled lights on the south side and a three-light perpendicular east window. The porch is of brickwork, with a gable, cambered arch, and a plaque inscribed 'The Gift of Magdalen College 1750'; within, is a plain Gothic doorway (C13) with a stoop in the jamb.
Interior: plain, with C15 piscina, having a trefoil arch and a credence (now in the nave), a plain circular font, a Jacobean altar table, panelled sanctuary, cambered tie-beams (some with king posts), and a brass chandelier. There are some modest wall monuments, of the late C17 and the C18.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 143042
- 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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