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St Mary Magdalene

Madingley

Cambridgeshire

C13 chancel, late C13-early C14 nave, west tower, and north aisle.

Architectural Features

Clerestorey added C15.

West tower, c.1300, of pebblestone, rendered, Embattled four stages with reticulated tracery to two trefoil lights of west window.

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.

One lancet and one C14 window with reticulated tracery both much restored, to the south wall.

Inside. c.1300 tower arch

Deep splays, C13, to restored fenestration of north and south walls of chancel.

Font C12 of stone.

Square bowl with sides divided into panel and carved with chevron tooth and interlaced arcading.

One C13 stem, square with angle shafts.

Late C17 or early C18 and reset probably from Great St Mary's, Cambridge.

Glass, seine C16 reset, in windows in south wall of chancel.

South wall, window with two embattled figure. c.1525, probably Antwerp.

Female figure composed of Justice and Charity and male figure, possibly Charlemagne.

Monuments.

Wall monument in stone and beck marble with effigy in the round.

Dame Jane Cotton (Hynde), 1692.

Wall monument of alabaster and black marble

Elizabeth Stewkely, 1636, a female infant.