Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW UPPER NORTH STREET
577-1/31/927 (South side)
10/06/88 Church of St Mary Magdalene and
attached walls and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
UPPER NORTH STREET
St Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic
Church)

GV II

Roman Catholic church. 1861-2. By Gilbert Blount. Red brick
set in English bond with dressings of stone, black brick and
blue-glazed brick, spire of stone. 2-bay chancel, nave of 5
bays with north and south aisles, north tower and north-east
vestry.
EXTERIOR: all openings have stone hoodmoulds with voussoirs
above of black and blue-glazed brick, linked to springing
bands of the same materials. Window tracery a mixture of
geometrical and flamboyant. East window in the form of a
spherical triangle with flamboyant tracery. South-east chapel
under a pitched roof with angle buttresses, pointed-arched
east window with quatrefoil over 3 cusped lancets; 2 south
windows with stilted arches and quasi-quatrefoil over 2 cusped
lancets. South aisle of 5 bays, the windows pointed-arched
with a quatrefoil over 2 cusped lancets, buttresses between
the second, third and 4 bays from the west and between the
aisle and the south chapel; clerestory of 10 stilted
segmental-pointed arches with 2 cusped lancets each. Entrance
in western bay of south aisle, shoulder-arched under a pointed
arch with multi-moulded arch dying into deep chamfered jambs.
The north side is treated in the same way, except that the
tower abuts the second bay of the north aisle: tower of 3
stages with angle buttresses; pointed-arched entrance flanked
by engaged columns with foliage capitals supporting 2 orders
of moulded arches; gabled buttresses to either side with
gabled niches for statues; 2 lancets to second stage; paired
cusped lancets under a stilted pointed arch to belfry; corbel
table; broach spire with 2-light lucarnes. Single-storey
vestry partly under a pitched roof with two 3-light cusped
windows under a segmental arch flush with the wall, lower
parapeted part to west with pointed-arched entrance; low wall
to Upper North Street of brick with stone chamfered coping;
piers and railings survive west of the tower, but not to the
east.
(Builder: 3 August 1861, 8 March 1862).

Listing NGR: TQ3042204520

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Mary Magdalen's Church, Brighton at Wikipedia
• St Mary Magdalen's Church, Brighton official website
• Wikidata Q7594566

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)