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5 unusual facts about St Mary Magdalene


St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield, is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Battlefield, Shropshire, England.

Some of the gravestones in the churchyard contain Victorian and Art Deco carving.

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Langridge

St Mary Magdalene's Church at Langridge in the parish of Charlcombe, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Lillington

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Lillington is the Church of England parish church of Lillington, Warwickshire, a part of Royal Leamington Spa with a population of about 11,000.

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Wyken

The church was originally built in the 12th century CE, and the original doorway and nave and chancel survive.


Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea

St Mary Magdalene's Church, which had opened nearby in 1858, was declared redundant by the Diocese of Chichester in 1980 and was sold to the Greek Orthodox community.

English Gothic architecture

Notable later examples include Bath Abbey (c.1501-c.1537, although heavily restored in the 1860s), Henry VII's Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey (1503–1519), and the towers at St Giles' Church, Wrexham and St Mary Magdalene, Taunton (1503-1508).

Frederick Marrable

In this period he designed St Mary Magdalene's Church in St Leonards-on-Sea (1852).

Locko Preceptory

Following the capture of Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby in 1266, following his rebellion against King Henry III, de Ferrers' lands and estates were confiscated; the associated from 1266 documents reveal there was a preceptory and leper hospital of the Order of St Lazarus at Locko, dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.

St Mary the Virgin's Church, North Stoke

The Trust administers five former churches in West Sussex; the others are at Chichester, Church Norton, Tortington and Warminghurst.


see also

Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth

The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth, is a Parish Church in the Church of England.

Clemens Pickel

In 1988-1990 the vicar of the parish of St. Mary Magdalene in the town Kamenz (Saxony).

Eutropius of Orange

His remains are interred in the Altar of St Mary Magdalene's Chapel at the London Oratory.

Lyall Wilkes

Following his death in 1991 Wilkes was buried in St. Mary Magdalene's Church Whalton.

Pozhiyoor

Two major churches, St. Mary Magdalene Church, Parithiyoor and St. Mathew's Church, South Kollemcode under the Latin Archdiocese of Trivandrum.

Royal Road, Kraków

Just three small city blocks down Grodzka, there's the St. Mary Magdalene Square with the Church of Saints Peter and Paul (first Baroque church in Poland) and the Church of St. Andrew; and, at the end of Grodzka (one block further), the Church of St. Giles at Podzamcze Street.