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St Mary Magdalene's Church, Lillington

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The old south aisle was extended and the north aisle added in 1847. The south aisle was then demolished and a wider aisle built in 1868. Dormer windows were inserted in the roof in 1875. In 1884 the chancel, apart from the south wall, was rebuilt and the
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The earliest surviving parts of the present building are the possibly pre-Conquest doorway now located between the Lady Chapel and Sacristy, and the south wall of the chancel. The Perpendicular Gothic west tower is 15th century, built in about 1480.
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In the churchyard, opposite the vestry door, is the famous 'Miser's Grave'. The headstone of William Treen, who died aged 77 on 3 February 1810, carries this inscription, quoted in many nineteenth-century guides to Leamington, and most famously by
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and installed in 1897. It seems that the tower had no clock before then. The clock was renovated, the four dials repainted and gilded, and the mechanism repositioned within the ringing chamber, by the Cumbria Clock Company of
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of eight bells. The sixth bell is attributed to Thomas Harrys of London, cast about 1480, which makes it contemporary with the tower. The seventh bell was cast in 1625 by Watts of
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and Sacristy on the north side of the chancel were added, the Romanesque doorway being relocated for the second time since 1847. Three of the
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with a population of about 11,000. The church is at the junction of Vicarage Road and Church Lane. It has been a
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cast the remaining five bells in 1927. The bells were re-hung by Nicholson Engineering of
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The remainder of the church is Victorian, built or rebuilt between 1847 and 1884.
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Lillington Parish Registers, Warwickshire County Record Office DR426/5
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A History of the County of Warwick, Volume 6: Knightlow hundred
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Chester, Mike; Walters, T; Taulbut, R (25 July 2009).
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Lillington
Warwickshire
Denomination
Church of England
Churchmanship
Central
Dedication
St Mary Magdalene
Grade II listed
Diocese
Diocese of Coventry
Archdeaconry
Archdeaconry of Warwick
Deanery
Parish
Vicar(s)
Asst Curate(s)
NSM(s)
Reader(s)
Church of England parish church
Lillington, Warwickshire
Royal Leamington Spa
Grade II listed building

Lady chapel
stained glass
C.E. Kempe and Company
T. Lawrence Dale
Benjamin Satchwell

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