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St Mary Magdalene

St Mary Magdalene

Twyning

Gloucestershire

C12, C15.Perpendicular extensively restored and the chancel rebuilt 1867-8 by John Middleton.

Architectural Features

Red tile roof.

C12 pilaster buttresses in dressed limestone and sandstone.

One C12 round-headed window with lintel with diaper decoration to the left of the porch.

One with diaper and rosette decoration, one with a single stone lintel with carved foliate decoration.

A small rectangular memorial tablet lies below the former window, which together with several scattered stone fragments with diaper decoration and a small carved head suggests parts of this wall may be rebuilt.

C19 double doors with decorative hinges (now obscured by the C19 porch) with a C12 round- headed surround with a plain tympanum set within a round arch with a heavy roll moulding.

Restored battlemented parapet with projecting gargoyles.

C13 pointed double-chamfered chancel arch on C12 engaged columns with cushion capitals.

Tile floor including some decorative encaustic tiling to the chancel.

C15 octagonal limestone pul- pit inside the north door.

C19 limestone and marble pulpit with recessed carved scene.

Monuments: south wall of the chancel monument to Clare Sybil, died 1575.

Rectangular brass inscription above the effigy.

Four white on black marble monuments within the chancel.

large monument to William Hancock, died 1676 and his two sons, comprising three half-length effigies with a broken triangular pediment supported by barley-twist balusters.

Two C17-early C18 monuments and four C19 marble monuments and a C19 benefaction board on the wall opposite.

C19 stained glass in the chancel east window.