Geddington is famous above all for the Eleanor Cross in the centre of the village. St Mary Magdalene lies just to the NE. Its nave is Anglo-Saxon, with arcaded decoration surviving on what was originally an exterior wall in the N aisle. Both faces of a splayed window pierced in this wall in the 12thc. can still be seen. The wall was pierced again for an arcade when an aisle was added in the late 12thc. The arcade is of 2½ bays, and Pevsner suggests that the original intention was to extend the nave to the E, pulling down the Anglo-Saxon E wall, but this was not done. By the time the S aisle was added in the 13thc., any such intention had been abandoned, since its arcade is of three complete pointed bays. The chancel was rebuilt later in the 13thc. and remodelled in the 14thc. This remodelling included the addition of the S chapel, and appears to be dated 1369 by inscription. Stylistically this seems 50 years too late - Pevsner goes into detail on this issue. There is also a N chapel - now housing the organ. The W tower is Perpendicular, with a spire with two rows of lucarnes. The only Romanesque sculpture is in the N arcade, and in loose stones clearly replaced from that arcade during a restoration.

St Edmundsbury Abbey held one hide and one virgate in 1086, and a further hide belonged to the king's manor of Brigstock. No church is mentioned in either holding, although there was a priest in Brigstock.

Benefice of Geddington with Weekley.

The Taylors dated the Anglo-Saxon church 'possibly period B', i.e. 800-950. Thompson preferred a late 10thc. date for this, and c.1170 for the N arcade. Thompson's hypothesis that the N arcade is curtailed because the chancel was extended westwards in the 13thc. seems unlikely.