Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE (Hucknall) (4.9.2)

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Grade II*
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 410903
Date assigned 12 October 1988
Date last amended

Description

Parish church. C12, C13, C14, south aisle 1872 by Evans and Jolly; north and south transepts 1887 by R. C. Clarke; Lady Chapel restored, 1919; tower restored 1925. Coursed and squared rubble and ashlar. Plain tile, lead and copper roofs. Ashlar dressings. Chamfered plinths and string courses, moulded eaves, coped gables with crosses. West tower, nave with clerestory, north and south aisles, south porch, north and south transepts, Lady chapel, chancel. West tower, late C12, raised C14, 3 stages, has corner pilasters, coved eaves and crenellated parapet with 4 pinnacles. Remains of 2 gargoyles. North and south sides have each a buttress. First stage has to south, a lancet. To west, restored and partly blocked C13 triple lancet with hood mould. To its left, C20 gabled shed. Second stage has on each side a paired lancet, C13, with rounded mullion. Third stage has on each side, clock, 1884, and above it, louvred C14 double lancet with Y tracery. Nave clerestory has on each side 3 C13 style lancets with shafts, hood moulds and intermediate pilasters. East gable has traceried round window. North aisle west end has C15 style triple lancet with panel tracery. North side has 3 buttresses. Off-centre C13 blocked door, flanked to left by 2 and to right by single C15 style double lancets with panel tracery. South aisle, 5 bays, has 5 buttresses. West end has C15 style triple lancet with panel tracery. South side has porch flanked by 2 similar lancets. South porch, C14, rebuilt 1872, has south gable with jowled posts and arch braces, carrying braced king post. West side has small light. East side has mullioned opening. Interior has remains of stone benches and common rafter roof. Inner doorway C13 has C17 weather stripped C13 door with C18 furniture. Buttressed north and south transepts, 3 bays, have C14 style cusped lancets with Decorated tracery, hood moulds and stops. North transept has on each-side 2 double lancets. North gable has central moulded door and above, 5 light lancet. South transept east side has 3 and south side has 2 double lancets. South gable has central moulded doorway and above, 5 light lancet. Lady Chapel, rebuilt 1888, 2 bays, has to north 2 buttresses and 2 double lancets, C14, with intersecting tracery. East end has a similar triple lancet and tablet, 1919, referring to redesignation as Memorial Chapel. Chancel, rebuilt 1887, 3 bays, has 2 pairs of gabled corner buttresses at east end, and datestone, 1887. Above, 5 light lancet with intersecting tracery. South side has off-centre blocked door, C14, flanked by a double and a triple lancet, with intersecting tracery. Tower arch, early C13, double chamfered and rebated, has half-round imposts with moulded capitals. Stained glass west window. Nave north and south arcades, 3 bays, rebuilt 1887, have each octagonal piers and double chamfered rebated arches. South arcade has angel corbel to east. Clerestory has C13 style lancets with shafts. Scissor braced roof. North and south aisles have moulded lean-to roofs with (NCC/js)

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Grid reference Centred SK 53345 49381 (36m by 34m)
Map sheet SK54NW
District Ashfield
Civil Parish Hucknall, Ashfield

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Apr 14 2020 11:54AM

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