Remains of Old Church of St Mary and All Saints
REMAINS OF OLD CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ALL SAINTS, OLD CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077953
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Old Church of St Mary and All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF OLD CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ALL SAINTS, OLD CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077953
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Old Church of St Mary and All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF OLD CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ALL SAINTS, OLD CHURCH LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF OLD CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ALL SAINTS, OLD CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thundridge
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3681017335
Details
TL 31NE THUNDRIDGE OLD CHURCH LANE
(north side)
Thundridge Bury
2/19 Remains of Old Church of
St Mary and All Saints
24.1.67
II*
Church. W tower only remains. C15 tower with C12 doorway and C14
window set in blocking of tower arch when church demolished in
1853. Flint rubble with stone dressings and clunch moulded
frames to openings. Roofed by a concrete slab at former parapet
level. A tall 3-stage square W tower with diagonal buttreses at
W corners. An internal spiral stair rises in the SW corner. W
front has weathered string courses at each level with sloped
plinth and protecting string course just above it. 3-light
cusped C15 W window immediately over contemporary W door with 4
centred depressed head, hollow moulded jambs, spandrels, square
surround and moulded label with grotesque heads as stops.
Pointed loop to middle stage and 2-light traceried openings on
each face of the bell stage. Large oval cast-iron tie plates at
2 levels on side walls. Chevron and dogtooth moulded arch and 2-
light square headed, ogee traceried window with ferramenta and
label with caved headstops, in blocking of equilateral C15 tower
arch with hollow moulded imposts. Frame of hatchment fixed hiqh
inside tower. Quatrefoil in circle dial stone on S face of
tower. Stone slab dial fixed higher up on same face. Many
carved C18 gravestones in surrounding churchyard with C17 and C18
brick wall. (RCHM (1911) 221: VCH (1912) 379: Pevsner (1977)
364).
Listing NGR: TL3681017335
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356028
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 379
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 364
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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