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Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN (1335409)

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Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 1261, 5, 121
Date assigned 23 March 1989
Date last amended

Description

'SK 57 SW PARISH OF ELMTON WITH CRESWELL ELMTON ROAD,CRESWELL 5/121 (South Side) Church of St Mary Magdalene II Parish church. 1899, aisles added in 1914, tower in 1927, all by LAmbler, for the Duke of Portland. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with chamfered copings to gables and parapets. Nave with lean-to aisles, north-west tower, west narthex, chancel with north chapel and vestry. Chamfered plinth. The tower has tall gabletted angle buttresses. West doorway with moulded arch and hoodmould on foliage stops. Pair of plank doors. On the north side is a 2-light window with reticulation unit. Inscribed stone below with the date of the erection of the tower. At first floor level to south, west and north are flat-arched 2-light windows with cusped ogee lights. Large paired bell-openings in each direction, each one of two cusped ogee lights. Stair turret in the north-west angle has four tiers of small lancets on three sides. Four-bay north aisle divided by buttresses with two set-offs. Each bay has a 3-light window with through mullions and ogee tracery to the outer lights. Gabled bay to the left has a 2-light window with reticulation unit. Moulded doorway to the vestry. Unequal twin-gabled east elevation has a 2-light window with reticulation unit to the lower part and a circular window of two traceried ovals. Foundation stone below dated 1899. The south side of the chancel is of two bays divided by a buttress with two set-offs. Two-light windows with reticulation units. South aisle has a similar 2-light east window and a doorway with plain chamfered arch. Four-bay south elevation matching that to the north. Flat-roofed west narthex has a diagonal buttress at the corner and flat-arched 2-light windows to west and south, with cusped ogee lights. West entrance has moulded arch and pair of plank doors. Interior: Four-bay arcades have single chamfered arches without capitals. Moulded chancel arch on semi-octagonal responds. King post roof with arched tie-beams on corbels. Early C20 timber furnishings; pews, choir stalls, communion rails, altar with carved panels, dado and reredos. War memorial chapel on the north side has a carved reredos. Octagonal Dec style font. Listing NGR: SK5257274295.'

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Sources (1)

  • Listed Building File: Historic England. 2011. The National Heritage List for England. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1335409?section=official-list-entry.

Map

Location

Grid reference SK 52572 74295 (point)
Map sheet SK57SW
Civil Parish ELMTON, BOLSOVER, DERBYSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 7 2025 6:43PM

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