Listed Building record MDO14415 - Magdalene Lodge, formerly church, North Wotton

A church built in 1883 to replace the medieval church of St Mary Magdalen, on a different site. The building incorporates earlier features such as windows, probably from the earlier church.

Plan of nave and chancel built in 1883 to replace the Old Church of St Mary Magdalene (ST61SE1). It has reused material from the former church. <3>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 267-268 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE stands 440 yards N.N.W. of the modern church. … The Modern Church incorporates the following architectural features. In the S. wall of the chancel is a 15th-century window of one trefoiled light with a label. In the N. wall of the vestry is an early 16th-century window of two four-centred lights with foliated spandrels and moulded reveals. The nave has, in the S. wall, two partly restored late 14th or early 15th-century windows of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in a two-centred head; the S. doorway has a two-centred head of the same period. The roofs of the chancel and nave have 15th-century wall-plates.’

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 306 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF051581 (Index). SDO14738.

MAGDALENE LODGE, NORTH WOOTTON: File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 526903 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 18 2022 10:54AM