St Mary Magdalene's Church, Leintwardine, Herefordshire, Church History

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St Mary Magdalene's Church, Leintwardine

St Mary Magdalene's Church,
Church Street,
Leintwardine, Herefordshire.

Cemeteries

This Church has (or had) a graveyard.
Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.

Church History

This Place of Worship was founded in 1190, and we understand it is still open.

This is a large church - Pevsner says the oldest part of the present building is the west doorway. Mike Salter in The Old Parish Churches of Herefordshire (1998) dates not only the doorway, but also the west wall of the nave, and a reset priest's doorway as c1190-1200.
The account of St Mary Magdalene's on the Visit Herefordshire Churches website records the site having Roman origins, and as a consequence the chancel is much higher than the nave. The reason for this is explained more fully on the website for the Parish of Wigmore Abbey, where St Mary Magdalene's is described as the largest of nine churches in the group. It also mentions it is built over a Roman settlement, but there are Saxon and Norman foundations.
All in all, an intriguing building.

Denomination

Now or formerly Church of England.

If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication.

Maps

This Church is located at OS grid reference SO4046774090. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Leintwardine shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Leintwardine shown on a Google Map.
Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15)
Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13)
Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15)
Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15)
OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15)
A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15)
www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15)

Resources

I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Leintwardine, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

“Explore the wonders of Herefordshire's beautiful churches”, and Visit Herefordshire Churches (null) (verified 2018-12-05)
The website of Parish of Wigmore Abbey (null) (verified 2019-02-03)

The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information, but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely. These factors are outside my control.

Information last updated on 3 Feb 2019 at 14:53.

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This Report was created 22 Dec 2024 - 20:25:45 GMT from information held in the Herefordshire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 7 Feb 2019 at 13:34.

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