Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, HIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111217
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, HIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111217
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, HIGH ROAD
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, HIGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Loughton
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 42267 96176
Details
TQ 49 NW LOUGHTON HIGH ROAD, 1/36 Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin - II
Parish church, 1872, by Thomas Henry Watson. Random Godalming stone with bonding courses of 3 layers of red clay tiles at irregular intervals, limestone dressings, plastered internally, roofed with late C19 red clay plain tiles. Chancel with semi-octagonal apse, 2 transepts, nave with two aisles and S porch, choir vestry to N of chancel, vicar's vestry to S of chancel, all contemporary. All windows have 2-centred arches and 2-centred tracery except where otherwise stated. Th chancel has 3 windows with 2-centred arches and 2 2-centred lights with a round shaft between and trefoil above; the lower walls are lined with carved oak panelling. The chancel arch is 2-centred. The arcades are of 4 bays with 2-centred arches on round piers with carved capitals of naturalistic floriate and foliate designs, all different, executed by an unknown carver, 1872-1886. The clerestory windows appear on the outside as trefoils, quatrefoils and a cinquefoil, on the inside as double lights with 2-centred arches and a round light above. The S doorway has a 2-centred arch with Mannerist rusticated jambs, the stonework on the outside left unfinished where carved detail might be expected. The choir vestry has a timber dormer to the E with 4 ogee-headed lights, leaded. The roof of the chancel is of high quality, arched ribs converging to meet arch-braced collar-trusses. The roof of the nave is of 7 cants, the timber exposed. The roof of the N transept is of 6 cants, the timber exposed, the S transept presumably similar but not visible. The pulpit is of limestone with naturalistic floriate carving. The font is of marble, round and plain. The construction is fully recorded in K. A. Vine: 'the Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Loughton, a short history, 1967, copy in Essex Record Office.
Listing NGR: TQ4226796176
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118630
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vine, K A, The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Loughton A Short History, ()
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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