Description

STOCKLINCH CP MAIN STREET (East side)
ST3817

6/100 Church of St Mary Magdalen
4.2.58

GV I

Anglican parish church. C13 and later. Ham stone rubble with ashlar dressings, chancel partly cut and squared work;
Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables, continuous; small bellcote at west end. Two-cell plan of 3-small-bay
chancel and 3-bay nave, with north-east vestry and south porch. Chancel plain, the south wall apparently rebuilt: east
window a 3-light flamboyant traceried window with moulded label; small 2-light early C14 flat headed window without
label in north wall; in south wall a larger 3-light version, very early Perpendicular with moulded label having deep
drops, not stops, and east of this a simple chamfered pointed-arch doorway. Nave has angled corner buttresses at west
end: on north side a C17/C18 single light window with hoodmould, then a 2-light C14 or early C15 traceried window in
hollowed recess, and at west end the gallery doorway, restored, approached by a simple stone staircase with wrot-iron
handrail; the west window a 3-light C15 traceried window in hollowed recess with headstop label, and below a
pointed-arched west doorway; without label; the south wall has another 2-light C15 window east of the porch: the bell
turret simply rectangular on plan, with pitched stone canopy, 3 semi-circular arched through-arches east to west for
bells, with bells hung on wheels. South porch possibly C15: plinth stone slab roof with plain gable ending with block
sundial and ball finial, inscribed with motto "Redeeme the time'; moulded 4-centered outer archway; inside a C15
pointed-arched doorway; the ceiling based on straight stone 'rafters'. North east vestry probably a C18 addition; very
simple, with pointed arched doorway in north gable, and a 2-light leaded casement window in west wail. Inside, little
work later than C18. Chancel has arched-braced collar-trussed roof with elaborate scarfed joints, probably C17, with
plaster panelled ceiling; east window has rere-arch; C19 doorway into vestry, and small organ. Chancel arch of C15 to
full width, shafts with hollows to jambs. Nave has a C17 timber ribbed vaulted ceiling with carved diamond shape
bosses, and at rear a C18 gallery, with dentilled beam cornice moulding, four rectangular fielded panels and a
semi-circular arched centre panel with a vernacular painting of a kingly figure composing the music to 3 Halleluyahs.
Fittings include a C13 ogee-arched piscina, an early C17 Communion rail, a C17 altar table and a C18 style reredos
panelling; choirstalls and pews of 1908, but in C17 style with overlap unseasoned boards, but one C18 box pew with
fielded panels survives; C17 panelled timber pulpit with door, moulded tester above, and reading desk in front; font of
C12 or C13, a fluted circular bowl on turned base. Fine undated hatchment board over south doorway. Above chancel arch
2 corbel heads, possibly to carry the lentern veil. Monument in chancel to Revd James Upton, died 1844, black and white
marble with colouring. (Pevsner, N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958 - but read the description for
St Mary Stocklinch Ottersey, as the two are transposed).

Listing NGR: ST3829817185

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Mary Magdalene, Stocklinch at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5117556

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)