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St Mary Magdalene

St Mary Magdalene

Hucknall

Nottinghamshire

C12, C13, C14, south aisle 1872 by Evans and Jolly

Architectural Features

Plain tile, lead and copper roofs.

West tower, late C12, raised C14, 3 stages, has corner pilasters, coved eaves and crenellated parapet with 4 pinnacles.

Remains of 2 gargoyles.

To west, restored and partly blocked C13 triple lancet with hood mould.

Second stage has on each side a paired lancet, C13, with rounded mullion.

Third stage has on each side, clock, 1884, and above it, louvred C14 double lancet with Y tracery.

Nave clerestory has on each side 3 C13 style lancets with shafts, hood moulds and intermediate pilasters.

North aisle west end has C15 style triple lancet with panel tracery.

Off-centre C13 blocked door, flanked to left by 2

to right by single C15 style double lancets with panel tracery.

West end has C15 style triple lancet with panel tracery.

South porch, C14, rebuilt 1872, has south gable with jowled posts and arch braces, carrying braced king post.

Inner doorway C13 has C17 weather stripped C13 door with C18 furniture.

Buttressed north and south transepts, 3 bays, have C14 style cusped lancets with Decorated tracery, hood moulds and stops.

Lady Chapel, rebuilt 1888, 2 bays, has to north 2 buttresses and 2 double lancets, C14, with intersecting tracery.

East end has a similar triple lancet and tablet, 1919, referring to redesignation as Memorial Chapel.

South side has off-centre blocked door, C14, flanked by a double and a triple lancet, with intersecting tracery.

Tower arch, early C13, double chamfered and rebated, has half-round imposts with moulded capitals.

Stained glass west window.

South arcade has angel corbel to east.

Clerestory has C13 style lancets with shafts.

North side has 2 late C19 mosaics and 2 stained glass windows.

South side has window with fragments of C15 glass.

West end has C19 stained glass window.

South aisle south side has stained glass windows, 1890 and late C19, and mosaic panel above south door.

North and south transepts have each a moulded arch with shafts on angel corbels.

Most windows have stained glass by Kempe.

North side has 2 stained glass windows, 1919, by Gascoigne, and east end has a similar window.

South side has re-set C13 piscina.

To its right, 2 bay arcade with crested traceried memorial screen.

Above it, traceried stained glass round window.

North side has 2 bay arcade, C13, with octagonal pier and responds and chamfered arches.

East end has panelling incorporating square aumbry and stained glass window, 1883.

South side has C13 piscina and sedilia with C20 crest and surround.

Above, 2 stained glass windows, 1888.

Fittings include plain octagonal font, C14, brass eagle lectern, C19, and panelled square oak pulpit, 1906.

2 chests, C17 and C18.

Memorials include large draped oval marble tablet with Arms and urn, to Richard, Lord Byron, 1679.

C14 style wall tablet, 1852, to Augusta, and floor brass, 1822, to Allegra, daughters of the poet.

Hatchment, C18.

3 C19 and C20 brasses.

C14 style tablet, 1887, to those whose graves were disturbed in the rebuilding of 1887, by Thomas Fish.

Large inlaid alabaster with war memorial in oak surround.

Interior has 25 stained glass windows by Kempe, 1888-1895.