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Latitude: 52.1035 / 52°6'12"N
Longitude: -2.1672 / 2°10'1"W
OS Eastings: 388646
OS Northings: 245034
OS Grid: SO886450
Mapcode National: GBR 1HC.4WX
Mapcode Global: VH937.DD59
Plus Code: 9C4V4R3M+C4
Entry Name: Church of St Mary Magdalen
Listing Date: 25 March 1968
Last Amended: 27 April 1992
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1082581
English Heritage Legacy ID: 152546
ID on this website: 101082581
Location: St James's Church, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, WR8
County: Worcestershire
District: Malvern Hills
Civil Parish: Croome D'Abitot
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Severn Stoke with Croome d'Abitot
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
SO 84 NE
22/11, 2/11
CROOME D'ABITOT
Church of St Mary Magdalen
25.03.68
GV
I
Church 1758 by Lancelot (Capability) Brown with interior by Robert Adam. Bath stone. Gothic. Chancel, nave and west tower all embattled. Three-stage tower with Perpendicular style traceried bell stage, battlements and pinnacles. Lowest stage is vaulted. West porch, open on three sides.
Three-window nave with niches at west and east ends, chancel with two blank windows each side and large east window. Some of the detail remarkably correct, otherwise Georgian Gothick as in the nave and chancel cornices.
INTERIOR 'pure Georgian Gothic', tall quatrefoil piers to nave and coved ceiling. Flat aisle roofs Very fine plasterwork. Panelling with quatrefoil upper panels. Adam style wooden font and communion rails. In chancel outstanding series of Coventry family monuments from 1639 onwards. Fine Gothick pulpit.
'One of the most serious (churches) of the Early Gothic Revival outside, one of the most elegant inside' (Pevsner).
Listing NGR: SO8864645034
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