St Mary Magdalene is a

Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, ...

church in

Geddington Geddington is a village and civil parish on the A4300, previously A43, in North Northamptonshire between Kettering and Corby. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,503, virtually unchanged from 1,504 at the 2001 census. ...

, Northamptonshire, England. It is a

grade I listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...

building. In 2017 it was wrongly thought to be the Shrine of Hagius until the belief was found to be based on an error in transcription.False idol: translation mishap gives St Mary Magdalene vicar faith in Geddington village ‘saint’.
Jack Malvern, ''The Times'', 11 October 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2017. The east windows were created by

Sir Ninian Comper Sir John Ninian Comper (10 June 1864 – 22 December 1960) was a Scottish architect, one of the last of the great Gothic Revival architects. His work almost entirely focused on the design, restoration and embellishment of churches, and the desi ...

. He also designed windows for

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and the entirety of the

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wellingborough The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Church of England parish church in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. The church is a Grade I listed building. History The church was built from 1908 to 1930, and was designed by Sir Ninian Comper. It is in th ...

, amongst many others. The central East window was created in the early part of his illustrious career while the South East window is much later, and there are vast changes in style in the intervening 50 years.

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* Church of England church buildings in Northamptonshire

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