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St Mary Magdalen

St Mary Magdalen

Gillingham

Kent

Early C13 chancel

Architectural Features

side chapels, nave rebuilt C15, C15 aisles and tower, restored 1868-9 by AW Blomfield.

the S side has a low ogee-arched mid C14 window partly obscured by the E gable of the S chapel, which has a small arch over it.

C15 4-bay nave arcade has round shafts and octagonal capitals with central rectangular shafts with moulded corners, responds each end, with a shallow roof with arched braces on corbels.

FITTINGS: 3-sided W gallery on thin posts and turned balusters, C11 Norman font, with 16-arch arcade on shafts and zig zag moulding.

STAINED GLASS: E window by Holiday for Heaton, Butler and Bayne.

MEMORIALS: various wall memorials.