Description

BELMONT BROOMSIDE LANE
NZ 34 SW
(North side)
7/11 Church of St.
10/5/67 Mary Magdalene
GV II

Parish church. 1857 by William Butterfield. Minor late C19 alterations;
1901 vestry by C.H. Fowler. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings;
plinth to vestry. Welsh slate roof with decorative ridge tiles. 4-bay nave
with north porch; 2-bay chancel with north organ chamber and vestry. Steps
up to boarded north door, with leaf-decorated strap hinges, in deeply-moulded
2-centred-arched surround, under wood-bracketed castslide roof. Ovolo-moulded
cusped ogee tracery in windows, mostly 2-light, with alternate-block surrounds
and sloping sills. South-west nave window more elaborate and with dripmould.
Decorated 3-light east window has beakhead-stopped dripmould; west window has
plate tracery with 3 ogee-headed lights. Short buttresses, and continuous
stepped sill string, to chancel, vestry and north nave.
Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings; arch-braced roof with
collars and short king-posts, having 2 tiers of thin wood arches between each
collar and apex, and bolted arch braces; tension rods stirrup-fastened to
king-posts. Deep dripmould over high chamfered chancel arch with inner
ovolo-moulded arch on shafts with fillets. Similar dripmould to vestry door.
Ovolo-moulded window surrounds with double-chamfered sill steps. 1892 reredos
by Butterfield. Early C20 pews by Thompson of Masham. Chancel panelling with
traceried arch over sedilia. East window dated and signed 1923 by W. Glasby
London.

Listing NGR: NZ3039743615

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26452841

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)