Description

HEWELSFIELD GENERAL
SO 50 SE
6/23 Church of
St Mary Magdalen
7.8.54
GV II*
Anglican parish church. C12, C13, C16 and C19. Nave, north aisle, south porch,
central tower, chancel, north transept. Sandstone, slate roofs.
Nave has long swept-down roof on both sides, porch with coped gable, inner
door early English and part C19 doors with strap hinges, over this an image
niche of C12; to right of porch a 2-light C19 cusped lancet and 3-light with
2 quatrefoils. Tower squat with pyramid roof on Norman corbel table, louvred
lancet over small cusped lancet, and to right a deep buttress with 3 offsets.
Chancel with coped gable and cross has a cusped lancet and 2-light cusped plus
carved roundel flanking a blocked priest's door, and in east end cusped 2-light
C12 with quatrefoil in pale tracery. North of chancel a C15 or C16 2-light
cusped window to square head. Transept east wall, 2-light cusped C14, west
wall a pointed door. North aisle, 3 very small lancets, one of these a C13 window
cut from a single stone. West end has small rectangular light and chamfered
surround on a 2-light cusped C14 window. Interior: 4-bay nave, transitional
detail arcade of double chamfer pointed arches with chevron cut to plaster
edge, on round columns, C19 roof, in wall to chancel two quatrefoil openings;
north aisle has curtailed broad pointed arch to transept. Crossing with flat
beam C19 ceiling, low, steep pointed arch to north transept, C14 ogee-head
recess in its east respond, and the arches east and west in very thick walls
with broad chamfer. Chancel restored in C19, facetted ceiling. North transept
has plaster barrel vault and 2 marble wall tablets of the C18. Two lofty narrow
benefactors' boards and one square board standing in nave at time of survey,
November 1983. (D Verey; Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean,
1970).

Listing NGR: SO5676002135

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17537428

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)