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:
- 1381217
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1949
- 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:
- 1381217
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1999
- 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:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Royal Leamington Spa
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 32471 67332
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP36NW CHURCH LANE, Lillington
1208-1/20/426 (South side)
01/03/49 Church of St Mary Magdalene
(Formerly Listed as:
VICARAGE ROAD, Lillington
St Mary Magdalene's Church)
GV II*
Church. C14 origins to chancel and tower with C15 upper stage,
otherwise mainly 1847 by JG Jackson of Leamington, builder
William Bolland, and with east part of chancel of 1884.
White and pink sandstone ashlar with plain-tile roof.
PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, the north aisle
extends to west, south porch, 2-bay chancel with north Lady
Chapel, north-east vestry and sanctuary; 3-stage west tower.
EXTERIOR: tower has chamfered plinth, angle buttresses with
off-sets; entrance to west end a plank door in 4-centred
surround with hollow moulding; 3 cusped-light window with
chamfered mullions and surround; 2-light belfry openings to
each side with Y-tracery, band, battlements, pinnacles with
finials.
South porch, chamfered plinth, off-set angle buttresses;
panelled door in pointed, double-chamfered arch, copings.
Aisles: off-set buttresses to angles and between bays,
chamfered plinth; 2-light windows with reticulated-type
tracery, to east end of south aisle a 3-light window with
curvilinear tracery to head.
Chancel: south side has blocked round-arched entrance, two
single cusped lights and 3-light window with Y-tracery to
head; to east end a 3-light window with reticulated-typed
tracery to head. East end of Lady Chapel has rose window.
Vestry and sanctuary have 2-light windows with
reticulated-style tracery to heads.
INTERIOR: double-chamfered tower arch, partly concealed; nave
has double-chamfered pointed arches on octagonal piers with
moulded capitals and responds. Chamfered chancel arch with
hoodmould and foliate stops on octagonal responds with plain
capitals and continuous impost band; chancel has sedilia and
piscina. C15 octagonal font with shields in pointed
quatrefoils.
Stained glass by Kempe.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 340).
Listing NGR: SP3247167332
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481577
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 340
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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