Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP36NW CHURCH LANE, Lillington
1208-1/20/426 (South side)
01/03/49 Church of St Mary Magdalene
(Formerly Listed as:
VICARAGE ROAD, Lillington
St Mary Magdalene's Church)

GV II*

Church. C14 origins to chancel and tower with C15 upper stage,
otherwise mainly 1847 by JG Jackson of Leamington, builder
William Bolland, and with east part of chancel of 1884.
White and pink sandstone ashlar with plain-tile roof.
PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, the north aisle
extends to west, south porch, 2-bay chancel with north Lady
Chapel, north-east vestry and sanctuary; 3-stage west tower.
EXTERIOR: tower has chamfered plinth, angle buttresses with
off-sets; entrance to west end a plank door in 4-centred
surround with hollow moulding; 3 cusped-light window with
chamfered mullions and surround; 2-light belfry openings to
each side with Y-tracery, band, battlements, pinnacles with
finials.
South porch, chamfered plinth, off-set angle buttresses;
panelled door in pointed, double-chamfered arch, copings.
Aisles: off-set buttresses to angles and between bays,
chamfered plinth; 2-light windows with reticulated-type
tracery, to east end of south aisle a 3-light window with
curvilinear tracery to head.
Chancel: south side has blocked round-arched entrance, two
single cusped lights and 3-light window with Y-tracery to
head; to east end a 3-light window with reticulated-typed
tracery to head. East end of Lady Chapel has rose window.
Vestry and sanctuary have 2-light windows with
reticulated-style tracery to heads.
INTERIOR: double-chamfered tower arch, partly concealed; nave
has double-chamfered pointed arches on octagonal piers with
moulded capitals and responds. Chamfered chancel arch with
hoodmould and foliate stops on octagonal responds with plain
capitals and continuous impost band; chancel has sedilia and
piscina. C15 octagonal font with shields in pointed
quatrefoils.
Stained glass by Kempe.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 340).

Listing NGR: SP3247167332

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Mary Magdalene's Church, Lillington at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15979402

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)