Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1112021
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1112021
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH GREEN
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Hallingbury
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 50326 17472
Details
TL51NW LITTLE HALLINGBURY CHURCH GREEN
5/60 Church of St.Mary the Virgin
20.2.67 II*
Church. The walls are of flint rubble mixed with some tile and Roman brick. The roofs to the C12 Nave, C12 - C13 Chancel, Cl4 Porch and C19 Vestry are plain red tile. The Bell Turret, rebuilt C19 has a timber framed and plastered base and octagonal shingle spire. C19 North Aisle is clad with treated stainless steel as used on the Thomas Flood Barrage. The South Porch is of late Cl4 timber construction with unusual side tracery of squashed ogees and circles and has original bargeboards to gable. C12 south doorway is of Roman brick with rubble infilled tympanum supported by crenellated and moulded beam. The door Cl4 is of 4 panels with cinquefoil heads. Internally the nave has a modern north arcade. Of the 3 south wall windows the furthest east is C13 Lancet, C14 and C19 work shows in the other two, whilst west of the south doorway is a blocked C12 window of Roman brick. The Chancel walls may be of the same C12 date as the nave, but were lengthened, if not rebuilt in C13. It has an early C16 roof with moulded wall plate carved with running foliage, three main single hammerbeam frames with shields "the common couples between them are braced to their collars with their timbers forming depressed arches, above the apexes of which the collars are weakly cranked" (C.A. Hewett 1974). The nave roof has a reconstructed octagonal Crown Post with moulded base and capital and a C15 moulded tie beam with curved braces and wall plate. In the Chancel is a C13 Piscina with stopped and moulded jambs and trefoiled head. There is a niche in the south wall with a moulded shelf and spread trefoiled head with horizontal moulding above (R.C.H.M. 1).
Listing NGR: TL5032617472
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 120508
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
Hewett, C A, Church Carpentry A Study Based on Essex Examples, (1982)
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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