page_title: St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham / History
caption_attribution_description: English: St Mary Magdalene's Church, Sandringham
context_page_description: St Mary Magdalene Church is a church in Sandringham, Norfolk, England, located just to the southwest of Sandringham House. Members of the British Royal Family attend services when in residence at Sandringham, which normally includes Christmas. The current rector is the Reverend Canon Jonathon Riviere.
context_section_description: The Grade II* listed church is dedicated to Mary Magdalene and is described as a small building in the Perpendicular style, "nobly lying on raised ground". The current building dates to the 16th century and was restored by S. S. Teulon in 1855 and Arthur Blomfield in 1890. It is considered to be a noteworthy example of a carrstone building. It is located in the park and is approached from Sandringham House through the garden by "an avenue of fine old Scotch firs". 
  Much  of the  decoration  and the church's stained  glass in the  east  window  was  created  by  Charles  Eamer  Kempe whom  King Edward  VII  had also  commissioned in 1903 to  create  a  stained  glass window for  Buckingham  Palace of his  eldest  son,   Prince  Albert, Duke of  Clarence. The church's silver altar and reredos were presented to Queen Alexandra by the American department store owner, Rodman Wanamaker, as a tribute to Edward VII.  He also presented her with the silver pulpit and a silver 17th-century Spanish processional cross. Of note also is a Florentine marble font and a Greek font dating to the 9th-century.
caption: The chancel
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