page_title: Littleton, Spelthorne
section_title: Parish church
hierarchical_section_title: Littleton, Spelthorne / Landmarks / Parish church
caption_attribution_description: English: St Mary Magdalene parish church, Littleton, Middlesex: view from the south
context_page_description: Littleton is a village in the Borough of Spelthorne, approximately 16 mi west of central London. Historically part of the county of Middlesex, it was transferred to Surrey in 1965. It is the location of Shepperton Studios.
  The village is separated from Shepperton by the River Ash, which runs along its southern boundary. Queen Mary Reservoir, built in 1931, is to the north. Littleton borders Laleham to the west and Charlton, which is also in the post town of Shepperton, is 0.5 miles to the north-east. The parish church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade I listed building.
  London Heathrow Airport is 5 miles north of Littleton. The nearest railway station is Shepperton.
context_section_description: The Church of England parish church of St Mary Magdalene is now part of a united benefice with the parish of St Nicholas, Shepperton.
  The building is Grade I listed. The chancel and south aisle are 13th-century, on 12th-century foundations. The north aisle is 14th-century. In the 16th century the west tower and nave clerestory were built. In the tower are three bells cast in 1666 by William I Eldridge, who had bell-foundries at Wokingham and Chertsey. Early in the 18th century the fourth stage of the tower was added. On the north side of the chancel are two vestries: the first added in 1705 and the second about 1730.
  Fittings include 15th-century choir stalls with cusped ogee arches and panelling in the spandrels said to have come from Winchester, a complete set of late medieval pews, restored, and very restored rood screen of circa 1500, fine Flemish altar rails with C-scroll carving on the newels, very deep rich carving depicting the 10 commandments and eagles in chancel of circa 1700, an early Georgian wooden pulpit with arcaded tracery and small narrow high window into the south-east angle between nave and chancel to provide light, an Octagonal stone font with elaborate quatrefoil pierced and crocketed font cover of ogee domed section above, on a square pier, a hatchment on North tower wall.
  In the nave there used to be a set of six Italian Trecento pilaster panel paintings, painted in about 1365–70 and attributed to Jacopo di Cione and his workshop. Each depicts a different Christian figure: the evangelists John and Luke, the monks Anthony the Great and Peter Damian, and two members of the Camaldolese order: Beata Paola (died 1368) and Bruno Bonifacio. How they came to be at the church is not known. They were first recorded early in the 19th century by the art collector William Young Ottley (1771–1836). Since about 2009 they have been on loan to the National Gallery.
  In the 1830s the Wood family had 24 colours of the Grenadier Guards hung in the chancel. In 2012 they were taken down and presented to The Guards Museum at Wellington Barracks.
caption: St Mary Magdalene parish church from the south, showing the 16th-century Tudor west tower and nave clerestory
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