Description from record TQ 76 NE 34:
[TQ 78376881] Church[T.U] (1) The Church of St. Mary Magdalen, Gillingham, is mainly 15th c. but the chancel arcades are 12th century (2). In normal use (3). Parish Church of St Mary Magdalen, Church Street, Gillingham Green. Grade B. The arcades of the chancel date from the 12th century but otherwise it is mainly Perpendicular (4). Additional bibliography (5,6).

The following text is from the original listed building designation:

GILLINGHAM
TQ76NE CHURCH STREET, Gillingham Green 686-1/7/60 (East side) 24/02/50 Church of St Mary Magdalen
GV II*
Church. Early C13 chancel and side chapels, nave rebuilt C15, C15 aisles and tower, restored 1868-9 by AW Blomfield. MATERIALS: flint, brick and limestone rubble with limestone dressings, partly rendered, ragstone ashlar tower and a tiled roof. STYLE: Decorated Gothic style chancel and flanking chapels, Perpendicular Gothic nave and tower. PLAN: chancel, N and S chapels, aisled nave and W tower. EXTERIOR: coped E gable largely rebuilt mid C19 has flanking buttresses and a mid C19 5-light Decorated tracery window; the S side has a low ogee-arched mid C14 window partly obscured by the E gable of the S chapel, which has a small arch over it. N chapel has a steep E gable with eaves, some render, and a 3-light Perpendicular window, 2-bay N side with buttresses and 2-light Decorated windows; in front is a late C19 single storey crenellated vestry with a flat-headed window and N door. Nave and aisle have cornice and crenellated parapet, with a shallow N gable raised above chancel. 4-bay N elevation has flat-headed 2-light clerestory windows, the aisle has 2-light windows as the side of the chapel. 2-stage tower has angle buttresses to the lower stage, strings between stages and to a crenellated parapet, and regular putlog holes to each face; 2-light W door, with a small niche over, and a flat-headed 2-light window above and to the belfry, as the clerestory. A round SE corner stair tower has a conical roof and finial and a 2-light door at the bottom. S side as the N, with a central mid C19 coped, gabled porch with a 2-centre arched doorway with attached columns and moulded surround. SE chapel has gables each end with eaves, and a 3-light E window with head hood mould stops; S side has two 2-light windows and a flat-headed doorway with a 4-centre arched door to the E, and an E gable with a mid C19 3-light window with Perpendicular tracery and head stops. INTERIOR: not inspected, but noted as having c1200 2-bay arcade between chancel and side chapels with scallops and leafs to the capitals, and keeled roll to W arches, fine Decorated Gothic sedilia with 3 cinquefoil ogee arches with hood mould and stiff leaf capitals. A Perpendicular oak screen
with brattishing and open tracery in segmental-arched panels. C15 4-bay nave arcade has round shafts and octagonal capitals with central rectangular shafts with moulded corners, responds each end, with a shallow roof with arched braces on corbels. Tower has a tierceron rib vault on corner shafts. FITTINGS: 3-sided W gallery on thin posts and turned balusters, C11 Norman font, with 16-arch arcade on shafts and zig zag moulding. STAINED GLASS: E window by Holiday for Heaton, Butler and Bayne. MEMORIALS: various wall memorials. (BoE: Pevsner N & Newman J: West Kent and the Weald: London: 1976-: 290).
Listing NGR: TQ7820868837 (7)

HE archive material: OP24975 View of a Green Man carving from the transept arch of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Gillingham This print was received by the National Buildings Record on 6th November 1957.

<1> OS 6"1962 (OS Card Reference). SKE48398.

<2> MHLG (1132/11/A Dec 1947)3 (OS Card Reference). SKE46916.

<3> F1 CFW 04-NOV-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42421.

<4> DOE (HHR) Bor of Gillingham 1973 1 (OS Card Reference). SKE39792.

<5> Bldgs of Eng West Kent and the Weald 1980 290-91 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38056.

<6> Field report for monument TQ 76 NE 34 - November, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4057.

<7> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.