Architectural Features
nave arcade, clerestorey and north aisle mid C15
chancel, choir, sanctuary, lady chapel and aisles, late C15
transepts and chantry chapels early C16.
Library above south porch presented by Bishop White, 1698.
C14 traceried panelled door flanked by single niches.
Above it, a C15 five-light lancet with transom and panel tracery.
On either side, and in the gable, a canopied ogee headed niche with figure.
Nave clerestorey has coved eaves, crenellated parapet and gables, gargoyles and gabled sanctus bellcote with pinnacles.
Elliptical arched five-light lancet with figure in niche above.
On the east side, a blocked Tudor arched door.
In the gable, a canopied niche with figure and cross.
On either side, a gabled buttress, each with a figure niche, all crocketed.
Off-centre C14 moulded doorway with crocketed ogee finial.
East gable has a six-light lancet and above it, a figure niche with pinnacle.
Transepts have angle buttresses with figure niches and pinnacled gables with central niches.
Moulded arches with hood moulds and figure stops.
West window has late C19 stained glass.
Three north west windows have stained glass c1900.
East end has moulded arch with hood mould and figure stops and piers similar to the nave arcade, the south one with figure brackets.
To left, a painted stone figure niche with billeted canopy.
Three south east windows have stained glass by Wailes and Gerente, mid C19.
Two south west windows have stained glass by Kempe, 1901.
Both nave aisle west windows have stained glass by Burlison and Grylls, late C19.
Chancel arch has restored oak rood screen with traceried crest and canopies, said to be the sole surviving work of Thomas Drawswerd of York, 1508.
Three east end windows are flanked by canopied niches, the larger central ones with restored figures.
Central window has noteworthy stained glass by Hardman, 1862.
Wood panelled eastern chapel has traceried screen and altarpiece, and late C19 stained glass window by Hardman.
South chancel aisle has similar western arch and screen, flanked by single Tudor arched doorways, that to left to former rood.
East window has reset medieval stained glass by Joan Howson, 1957.
SK7953 : Newark-on-Trent, St. Mary Magdalene Church: Stained glass window (detail)
South side has east window with stained glass by Percy Bacon, 1929.
Central cusped piscina and to its right, Tudor arched vestry door with flanking pilasters and crest.
Rectangular Meyring chantry to north east of chancel, 1500, has angle buttresses and crenellated crest.
Similar Markham chantry, to south east of chancel, 1508, has frieze of shields.
South transept east window, blocked at the foot, has C19 stained glass.Two bay crypt, now treasury, has keeled roll-moulded rib vaults with bosses.
Fittings include octagonal C15 font with bowl c1660, altered C16 traceried bench ends with poppyheads in the chancel aisles, and elaborate traceried panelled choir stalls with misericords, c1500, matching the rood screen.
C16 cope chest and two freestanding collection boxes.
C19 benches, skeleton pulpit, brass eagle lectern, and Gothic organ case by Scott.
Purbeck marble chest tomb with quatrefoil panels to Robert Brown, 1532.
Garlanded marble and slate tablet with crest to Hercules Clay, 1644.
Strapwork marble and alabaster tablet with broken pediment to Henry Trewman, 1655.
Painted alabaster bust in oval niche, with pedimented surround and two inscribed panels, to John Johnson, 1659.
Two similar alabaster busts in oval niches, with inscriptions, to R. Ramsey, 1639, with broken segmental pediment, and to T. Atkinson, 1661.