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St Mary Magdalene

St Mary Magdalene

Woodstock

Oxfordshire

Late C12, enlarged in later Medieval period and rebuilt by A.W. Blomfield in 1878, who built north aisle

Architectural Features

Gabled stone slate chancel roof and concrete tile north aisle roof

2-bay south side of chancel has early C14 two-light rectilinear window, C13 buttress, a C15 pointed arched blocked door and a C15 three-light window with panel tracery

South aisle: segmental-arched late C13 three-light trefoil-headed east window

late C12 doorway, of 2 orders with zig-zag mouldings divided by roll moulding

two mid C13 plate-tracery windows

Late C15 five-bay clerestorey with 3-light ogee-headed windows

Early C14 five-light Curvilinear west window

C15 west porch has offset corner buttresses, canopied niche over pointed moulded doorway, and 2-light cinquefoiled windows: early C14 pointed moulded west doorway, with head stops to labels

Interior: coloured tile reredos and trefoiled piscina of 1878

C15 moulded pointed arched doorway to north

organ loft in North Chapel has finely-carved Jacobean frieze

C15 rood screen, has double-leaf doors and open tracery to upper panels with brattished cornice

Late C16/early C17 three-and-a-half bay roof, arch-braced with moulded ashlar plate and carved pendentives to false hammer beams

Late C19 five-bay nave arcades: south arcade has three C13 capitals with carved heads set in stiff-leaf foliage, and a C13 carved capital

Late C19 wood pulpit and bronze lectern

C15 octagonal stone front with blind tracery

C14 trefoiled piscina in south aisle

Nave has late C15 six-bay tie-beam roof

carved bosses to soffits of tie beans

mouchettes carved in spandrels of roof

Late C15 south aisle roof with moulded beams

Monuments in south aisle: brass of Richard Bailly d.1441

at west end of aisle is brass of Hieronimum Keyt, d.1631, showing him kneeling at prayer

monument to Jerome Keyt, d.1631, has oval tablet set in coloured architectural frame with shaped pediment set over heraldic achievement set in broken pediment. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp856-7)