St Mary Magdalene's Church, Hadrian's Wall

#61 among attractions in Hadrian's Wall

Church

Map

Facts and practical information

St Mary Magdalene’s Church is a small mid-Victorian Anglican church on an isolated hillside in north-east Cumbria, England. Dedicated to Jesus' companion Mary Magdalene, it is the parish church of Gilsland, but is almost a mile from the village and may have been intended as much for the use of visitors to the nearby Gilsland Spa hotel as for the village. It is noteworthy in that the founder, G.G. Mounsey, a local landowner and first elected mayor of Carlisle, published a detailed summary of his reasons for building the church and thus threw into relief some of the reasoning behind Victorian church building and restoration. ()

Coordinates: 54°59'56"N, 2°34'28"W

Address

Hadrian's Wall United Kingdom

Contact

Website

Social media

Add

Hadrian's Wall

Day trips

St Mary Magdalene's Church – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Birdoswald Roman Fort, Banna, Milecastle 48, Milecastle 49.

1.3 miSW
Museum
Birdoswald Roman Fort, Brampton
33 min walk • Birdoswald Roman Fort was known as Banna in Roman times, reflecting the geography of the site on a triangular spur of land bounded by cliffs to the south and east commanding a broad meander of the River Irthing in Cumbria below.
1.3 miSW
Area
Banna, Hadrian's Wall
33 min walk • Birdoswald Roman Fort was known as Banna in Roman times, reflecting the geography of the site on a triangular spur of land bounded by cliffs to the south and east commanding a broad meander of the River Irthing in Cumbria below.
0.7 miS
Area
Milecastle 48, Hadrian's Wall
18 min walk • Milecastle 48, is a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall. Its remains lie near the village of Gilsland in Cumbria where it was historically known as "The King's Stables", owing to the well-preserved interior walls. Unusually a substantial section of stone stairs has survived within the milecastle.
1 miSW
Area
Milecastle 49, Hadrian's Wall
26 min walk • Milecastle 49 was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall.
1.2 miSE
Area
Milecastle 47, Hadrian's Wall
32 min walk • Milecastle 47 was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall.
0.6 miN
Rock, Nature
Popping Stone, Hadrian's Wall
15 min walk • The Popping Stone is a group of three rounded boulders in the Irthing Gorge near the village of Gilsland. It was not always this shape, however, and photographs from before 1870 show a single, much larger stone that must have been drastically altered soon after this date.
1.1 miSW
54°59'33"N • 2°36'4"W
Borders of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall
29 min walk • The borders of the Roman Empire, which fluctuated throughout the empire's history, were realised as a combination of military roads and linked forts, natural frontiers and man-made fortifications which separated the lands of the empire from the countries beyond.