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St Mary Magdelene

St Mary Magdelene

Tormarton

Gloucestershire

Norman origin, C12 chancel arch, 2 lower stages of tower

Architectural Features

string courses on chancel, C14 aisle, porch rebuilt C17, south porch and north vestry 1853 by T.H. Wyatt.

3-stage tower has lancet north and south at first stage, stage has blocked window north and south, rectangular lancet to west and small carved head set in stonework above

buttresses, clasping buttress with bench-mark to north west, string courses, cornice to top stage with 2 gargoyles north and south with waterspouts to north, embattled parapet.

Fittings: font in tower of early C13, scalloped bowl supported on keeled shafts

Jacobean carved polygonal wooden pulpit in nave

hatchment in south aisle, 1842, recording gifts to parish.

Monuments in chancel: C14 matrix of lost brass of Sir John de Rivere, c.1350, showing outline of foliated cross and knight holding model of a church

In nave: brass of a man in civilian clothes, with hare, bell, cherries and Latin inscription, to John Ceysill, 1493

In south aisle: stone tablet with verse, to Gabriel Russell, 1663, stone tablet to his wife, Katherine, 1667

baroque stone tablet with cherubs, heraldry, surmounted by red hand, to Edward Topp, 1699.

Glass: chancel east, north and south window by Ward and Hughes, 1868