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St Mary Magdalene

St Mary Magdalene

Duns Tew

Oxfordshire

C12 and C14/C15, restored c.1665 and largely rebuilt c.1861 by Sir G.G. Scott for Sir Henry Dashwood

Architectural Features

C19 chancel, in marlstone with limestone banding and dressings, has to south two 2-light traceried windows in Decorated style plus a round-headed priest's door, but to east has a re-used 3-light window with Perpendicular tracery, and to north a C13 lancet

North aisle and vestry also incorporate earlier windows: the vestry a 2-light C14 window with ogee tracery, and the aisle a similar window plus a large square-headed 3-light C15 window with a label mould

South wall of nave and the porch are earlier, although probably partly C17

to right of the porch is a 3-light C14 window and to left a 2-light square-headed window with arched lights and a label (probably C17). Porch has a C19 arch of 2 chamfered orders but shelters a small late C12 door with a moulded arch

An inscription in the porch gable states "Tower and Porch/Rebuilt Anno 1665/The Church/Restored A.D.1861". Banded 3-stage tower, with stepped diagonal buttresses and a plain parapet, incorporates a C14 west door with continuous wave mouldings but the square-headed windows with arched lights and recessed spandrels are C17

One of the crocketed pinnacles is inscribed "This/bee/built/166(?)". Interior: walls are all in Cl9 banded stonework, and the arch to the vestry and the chancel arch are also C19, the latter with moulded corbels rising from carved heads

3-bay nave arcade is late C14 and has octagonal columns and arches of 2 chamfered orders springing from richly-moulded quatrefoil capitals with carved heads, matched by corbelled responds

C12 tub font has chevron and arcaded decoration

C19 stained glass in east window. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p590