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Magg's Day Centre

(Formerly listed as Magg's Day Centre, FISH STREET (north side), previously listed as: FISH STREET Church of St Alban)

22/05/54

II
Parish church, now day centre. C12 with later additions and alterations including restorations and alterations of c1821-1850. Coursed red and green sandstone with double pitch slate and plain tile roof.

Small church with continuous three bay nave and single-bay chancel with north aisle. Norman, Early English and neo-Norman. Chamfered plinth. Entrance to north side a round-arched doorway with one order of columns with cushion capitals and roll-moulding to head in chamfered reveals, all renewed; plank door. Two round-arched windows with one order of slender columns and roll-moulding to head, renewed, with blocked narrow opening between and large intel. East end has three stepped lancets to chancel with oculus over and lancet to aisle. West end has two renewed trefoil-headed lancets and continuous hoodmould; small rose window over. West gable bell cote. Coped gable ends.

INTERIOR: the North arcade is Late Norman with round piers and round abaci, double-chamfered arches, one scalloped capital and one flat-leaf capital, nailhead ornament in the hoodmould (mostly recut).Probably Victorian tile floor.

Monuments: wall monument to Marci, wife of William Wyatt d.1595; wall monument to Edmund Wyatt d.1711 a cartouche with winged cherubs and drapery; another wall tablet c1796.

Scheduled Ancient Monument.

External Links

• Historic England Listing

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide