Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
87570
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/10/2008
Date of Amendment
16/10/2008
Name of Property
Church of St Mary Magdelene
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Willington Worthenbury
Town
Locality
Tallarn Green
Easting
344567
Northing
344174
Street Side
SW
Location
Towards the middle of the linear village, on the SW side of the road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The church was built in 1872-3 to designs of John Edge, and at the expense of members of the Kenyon family of Gredington, one of several buildings in the village to be associated with the family. A clock tower was added in 1888. In 1940, R.S. Thomas (having recently married) had the living. It was during his brief ministry here that he determined to learn Welsh to enable him to return to Welsh-speaking Wales.
Exterior
Simple early gothic style. Rock-faced snecked red sandstone with tooled plinth and gold freestone dressings. Very steep shingle roof (replacing original tiles). Nave with apsidal east end; SW porch with added clock-tower in its western angle. Lancet windows (paired in north wall of nave), with double chamfered surrounds. Steep roof to porch, with gablets to kneelers of coped gable. Double chamfered arched entrance, with relief figure in quatrefoil over, and simpler chamfered doorway within (in red sandstone). Clock tower clasped in western angle of porch: slightly battered tower with tiered spirelet. Vestry projects from east end of nave north wall: shouldered arched doorway in west wall, and lancet window to east.
Interior
Simple undivided space comprising nave with steps up to apsidal chancel and sanctuary. Timber trusses with wrought-iron ties, with wall posts sprung from stone corbels; timber ribs to apse, herringbone boarding between trusses and ribs. Original fittings include pulpit incorporated in low stone wall at chancel steps: low-relief panels between polished granite banded shafts and chevron frieze; choir stalls and brass communion rail; font at west end, a simple bowl with chevron decoration and inscribed band, supported on clustered shafts.
Stained glass: north wall of nave has window by Trina Cox (commemoration date, 1969); a series of 4 late C19 windows in apse in good late medieval tradition. South and west windows by Francis Skeats (commemoration dates 1969 and 1975).
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a simple gothic revival village church retaining original character, including some fittings. Part of a significant group of buildings associated with the Greddington estate.
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