Reigate Deanery
Reigate, St Mary Magdalene
(within the parish of Reigate, St Mary Magdalene)
Reigate
Surrey
Parish Contacts
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Reigate
Surrey
Built: 12th century -
extended 19th century
Architect: extended by Woodyer and George Gilbert Scott Jnr
Listing:
grade B
St Mary's, the parish church of Reigate, is set on a small hill to the south east of the town centre. The church probably dates from the twelfth century, although the exterior is Perpendicular in appearance and was extensively restored in the nineteenth century by Henry Woodyer in 1845 and subsequently by George Gilbert Scott Junior in 1877-81.
There is no clerestory to the nave; on the north side the nave roof extends down over the aisle but the south aisle has a separate roof. on each side of the chancel is a chapel and to the north a short transept, the organ chamber and the clergy vestry. Above the latter is the Cranston Library and the single storey choir vestry, with porches and lavatory, was added early this century. Adjacent to the tall west tower on the north side is the latest addition providing a kitchen, two lavatories and a boiler house at low level designed by Robert J Potter Associates, who also re-ordered the east end of the church in 1984.