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St Mary Magdalen

St Mary Magdalen

Fleet

Lincolnshire

FLEET HALL GATE TF 32 SE (east side) 10/29 Church of St. Mary 30.6.66 Magdalen G.V. I Parish church. c.1180-1190, mid C14, restored 1798, 1843 and 1860-2 by C. Bennett of Lynn.

Architectural Features

Concrete tile and lead roofs with stone coped gables with cross finials and single small stacks to north-west and south-west.

String course rises under a large pointed late C14, heavily restored in C19, west window with 5 ogee headed, cusped lights with transom, panel tracery and hood mould.

South-east buttress with ornate mid C14 cusped, crocketed and finialled niche.

Eaves above this bay with foliate sculptured motifs of c.1190.

Interior 5 bay north and south arcades of c.1180 with tall round piers and semi-circular responds

Chancel arch of c.1180 with semi-circular responds and pointed double chamfered head with hood mould.

Mid C14 sedilia restored C19 with 3 crocketed and finialled gables.Trefoiled heads beneath and ornate pinnacles.

C15 octagonal font with traceried panels and octagonal pedestal.

Early C14 sculptured fragment of robed figure.

C19 roofs supported on fine C14 stone corbels of crouching figures.

5 sided pulpit with fielded panels and plain pilasters

Monuments include one in black and white marble to Hannah Frost, died 1831