Church of St Mary Magdalene, Winterbourne Monkton
The Church of St Mary Magdalene is the Anglican church in the village of Winterbourne Monkton, north of Avebury in Wiltshire, England. It is a 19th-century rebuilding of a structure dating from the 14th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Church
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: grade II listed church in Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Church Of St Mary Magdalen”, “St Mary Magdalen”, and “St. Mary Magdalene, Winterbourne Monkton”
- Postal code: SN4 9NW
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Windmill Hill and Avebury Manor and Garden.
Windmill Hill
Archaeological site
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile northwest of Avebury. Windmill Hill is situated 4,000 feet southwest of Church of St Mary Magdalene, Winterbourne Monkton.
Avebury Manor and Garden
Historic building
Photo: JürgenMatern, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden. It is in Avebury, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, in the centre of the village next to St James's Church and close to the Avebury neolithic henge monument. Avebury Manor and Garden is situated 1¼ miles south of Church of St Mary Magdalene, Winterbourne Monkton.
Alexander Keiller Museum
Museum
Photo: Chris Talbot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. Alexander Keiller Museum is situated 1¼ miles south of Church of St Mary Magdalene, Winterbourne Monkton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winterbourne Monkton and Berwick Bassett.
Winterbourne Monkton
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Winterbourne Monkton is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 1 mile north of Avebury Stone Circle and 6 miles northwest of Marlborough. The village lies immediately west of the A4361 road between Swindon and Devizes.
Berwick Bassett
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Berwick Bassett is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles northwest of Marlborough and 8 miles southwest of Swindon. The village is on the west bank of a headstream of the River Kennet and close to the A4361 road, formerly the A361, which links Devizes and Avebury with Wroughton and Swindon.
Avebury
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Avebury is a village in Wiltshire, famous for its neolithic stone circle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The henge and stone circles are thought to date from about 2500 BC to 2000 BC and are roughly contemporary with the more famous Stonehenge 20 mi to the south.
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Winterbourne Monkton
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.44667° or 51° 26′ 48″ northLongitude
-1.86075° or 1° 51′ 39″ westOpen location code
9C3WC4WQ+MPOpenStreetMap ID
way 537756480OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q15210290
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