St Mary Magdalene

Red sandstone ashlar walls (yellow to north aisle) with occasional patches of tile throughout

C12 and later west tower in 3 stages with broad clasping buttresses

lancet windows to first stage, C12 round headed windows (southern with nook shafts) to second, pointed windows and C12 circular openings to belfry

Perpendicular battlements and gargoyles Nave, aisles (southern on site of mid C13 aisle, see old masonry in end walls), porch, organ chamber and vestry of 1853

East chancel window c.1300, 5 lights with reticulated tracery and transom, ogee heads to lights below, cusped quatrefoils in the head.

C12 blocked south doorway with 2 contemporary(?) carved heads in semi-circular recess above

outline of old roof pitch preserved on east wall of tower above blocked C12 round headed window with nook shafts.

Medieval trussed rafter roof to chancel.

Plain C14 sedilia and piscina with chamfered recess above in south wall.

Early C14 window in north wall, knocked through to form entrance to vestry.

East and south windows have mid C19 glass.

Hexagonal C17 pulpit.

Octagonal mid C19 font.

SJ8004 : Albrighton, St. Mary Magdalene's Church: The mid c19th font 4 (detail)

© Michael Garlick

Late C13 tomb chest at west end of north aisle, uncovered in south aisle during 1853 restoration

armorial devices and small figures flank the sides of the tomb between twisted colonettes.

Against the south wall a plain table tomb with a crude cross carved in relief on its top commemorates the Duke of Shrewsbury An incised slab to the memory of Leonard Smallpece (now illegible) is built into the external east wall of the south aisle.