
About St Mary Magdalene Church
St Mary Magdalene’s Church, standing floodlit at the top of Windmill Hill, Enfield, has been a source of spiritual inspiration for worshippers and others in the local community for more than 135 years, as well as a notable landmark for much of North London and South Hertfordshire.
Located on the highest hill for many miles around, Windmill Hill is 206 feet above sea level - there is an Ordnance Survey height marker on the south side of the tower. The tower, complete with spire, reaches a further 140 feet skywards.
Cruciform in design, with north and south aisles, a south porch and a west tower, the church is as long as it is high, measuring 140 feet. The nave is 55 feet high from ground to the ridge of the roof and 50 feet wide.
The structure consists of coursed Kentish ragstone with Bath stone dressings in an early English style.
The church architect was William Butterfield and was completed in 1883. The Lady Chapel was added in 1907.
Everyone is welcome...

Expect a warm welcome when you enter St Mary Magdalene, everyone is welcome. You will be provided with a hymn book and a service booklet along with the weekly bulletin sheet which contains details of the forthcoming events along with the Collects and readings for the day. We don't use overhead projection so as not to detract from our beautiful Chancel.
Following the service you are warmly invited to join us for tea, coffee or squash and a biscuit in our hall, which is accessed round the outside of the church and alongside the East wall (Chancel end).
What we believe
Belief in God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit is at the heart of our faith. Christians believe that Jesus is God’s Son. Jesus reveals to us that God is our Father, and that God is available to us through the Holy Spirit.
You won’t ever be asked if you completely understand all this. But you are asked whether you believe and trust. This is called faith. It is a different sort of knowledge. It is the knowledge of being known and loved, and of loving in return.
The Christian faith is not a human invention. There are signs of God’s existence and handiwork in creation for anyone to read (Acts 14.15–17). But we believe in the way we do because God has come to seek us out and has made himself known to us.
When someone becomes a follower of Jesus they are baptized. (Or, if they have already been baptized, they will confirm for themselves the promises made at their baptism.) During this service a series of questions will be asked – in most respects the questions asked today are the same as those new Christians were asked in the earliest days of the Church.
"Brothers and sisters, I ask you to profess together the faith of the Church.
Do you believe and trust in God the Father?
Do you believe and trust in his Son Jesus Christ?
Do you believe and trust in the Holy Spirit?"
Everyone answers with either a simple ‘I believe and trust in him’, or by reciting the three parts of the Apostles’ Creed, one of the most ancient summaries of the Christian faith.
Being a Christian means responding to Jesus' invitation to enjoy a relationship with God here on earth and for eternity.