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St Mary Magdalene

St Mary Magdalene

Thormanby

North Yorkshire

C12, c.1200, C13, C15, C18, 1822 and 1900 MATERIALS: sandstone in deep courses, Welsh slate roofs and brick tower.

Architectural Features

PLAN: The church has a C12 three-bay nave and a C12

C13 two-bay chancel, with a tower of 1822 to the west, a C18 south porch and a c.1900 vestry on the north side.

The nave porch has a Tudor-arched doorway with slit vents to the sides

the former has a chamfered doorway and the latter has a small lancet window with old lead cames and old glass.

INTERIOR: Internally the chancel roof, dating from the C17, has curved ribs to the principal rafters rising from Jacobean inverted finials.

FIXTURES AND FITTINGS: In the blocked western arch of the former north arcade is a medieval grave cover with a floreated cross on a stepped base and a sword.

The C14 font nearby has an octagonal bowl moulded around the top, on a narrower octagonal stem.

The east window has glass of 1900 by Kempe and in the south-eastern chancel window is medieval glass given by Francis Plummer in 1952.

Above the pulpit is a C17 tester with Gothic cresting.

the name is erased from the inscription below, possibly evidence of C17 anti-monarchist feeling.