Caldecote

St Mary Magdalene, redundant, was deconsecrated in the mid 1970s and converted for domestic use in the late 1980s. It is now a private house.

ST MARY MAGDALENE. 1874 by Edward]. Tarver. Nave with double-bellcote and chancel. The chancel lancets and the shafts of the chancel E window are C13. So is the handsome DOUBLE PISCINA with a fleur-de-lis in the spandrel and the bracket opposite. The chancel arch responds are made up of twin-scalloped Norman capitals. The W window has a late C13 quatrefoil in the spandrel. - PULPIT. 1646. Plain panels and small arabesque panels over. - SOUTH DOOR. With C13 iron straps and scrolls.

CALDECOTE. It is one of the sleepy hollows with a church which has been refashioned without destroying the features of the 13th century church which went before it. The pulpit is 17th century, and there is a chest which has been keeping it company all the time. The font is 15th century. A stone coffin has been found hereabouts, six centuries old, and is now in the church; and a long walk away are the mounds and ditches of a village of forgotten time. The big house is Washingley Hall a 17th century home in a fine park.