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St Mary Magdalene

St Mary Magdalene

Whiston

South Yorkshire

C12 west window now built into east wall of C13 tower, south doorway also C13

Architectural Features

south wall rebuilt C15

Earliest work rubble sandstone, C15 work ashlar, C19 work dressed sandstone

String course with gargoyles beneath frieze with foiled panels, embattled parapet steps up to crocketed pinnacles.

Paired west doors with pointed arches and foliage-carved spandrels, 4-light west window with hoodmould.

Double-chamfered tower arch beneath C12 west window.

C19 aisle arcade with compound keeled piers and one octagonal pier, carved capitals, moulded arches with continuous hoodmould.

Marble wall monuments in south aisle.

2 medieval grave slabs, one in the base of the tower, the other north of the chapel altar.

Stained glass: east window by Clayton and Bell, 1883