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Madingley Church and Mill, R Farren 1881

St Mary Magdalene, Madingley

History of St Mary Magdalene

Listed building:

Parish Church. C13 chancel, late C13-early C14 nave, west tower, and north aisle. Clerestorey added C15. General restorations of 1872-4, and 1885. Tower and spire top stage rebuilt 1926. Pebblestone, clunch and limestone dressings, with tiled, slate and leaded roofs. Plan of west tower, nave with north aisle and north and south porches and chancel. West tower, c.1300, of pebblestone, rendered, Embattled four stages with reticulated tracery to two trefoil lights of west window. Bell stage has two trefoil lights with Y-tracery in two-centred heads to each wall. Small C14 spire, stone ashlar. Nave with rendered walls and C15 clerestory of five windows each of two, cinquefoil lights in four centred arches. The gable of the original c.1300 root is visible at the west end.

Madingley church monument of Jane Cotton 1707 (RCHM)

Madingley church, N arcade, pier early 14th cent (RCHM)

Madingley 12th cent font (RCHM)

Madingley church, Royal Arms 1801-16 (RCHM)

Madingley church, monument to Jame Cotton, 1692 (RCHM)

Madingley Church, monument to Commander Charles Cotton 1828 (RCHM)

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• church
• Listed building
• medieval

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