Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, WHEELER'S HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122044
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, WHEELER'S HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122044
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Apr-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, WHEELER'S HILL
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 MARTIN, WHEELER'S HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Waltham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 71219 12702
Details
1. LITTLE BADDOW BROOK BILL
5213
Church of St Martin
TL 7112 24/334 10.4.67.
II
GV
2.
A stone and flint rubble church of C12 origin. The nave and south door is C12 and there is
a Norman round headed window in the south-west of the nave. The chancel was rebuilt in the
C14-C15. The battlemented west tower is early C15 but was much repaired in the C16-C17 when
it was partly rebuilt in brick, with corner buttresses with 5 offsets and surmounted by a
small cupola with a weather vane bearing the date 1679. The church was much restored in
1883 when the south porch was rebuilt and the organ chamber added. The interior has
brasses of Johannes Walthan 1418, Richard Walthan 1426 and John Malthouse 1447. There is
also a "dugout" iron bound sycamore chest of the C13-C14. (RCHM 1).
The Church of St Martin Little Waltham Hall Hulmans and The 0ld Rectory form a group.
BROOK HILL
shall be amended to read
WHEELER'S HILL
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1. LITTLE WALTHAM BROOK HILL
5213
Church of St Martin
TL 7112 24/334
GV II
2.
A stone and flint rubble church of Cl2 origin. The nave and south door is Cl2
and there is a Norman round headed window in the south-west of the nave. The
chancel was rebuilt in the C14-C15, The battlemented west tower is early C15
but was much repaired in the Cl6-Cl7 when it was partly rebuilt in brick, with
corner buttresses with 5 offsets and surmounted by a small cupola with a weather
vane bearing the date 1679. The church was much restored in 1883 when the south
porch was `rebuilt and the organ chamber added. The interior has brasses of Johannes
Walthan 1418, Richard Walthan 1426 and John Malthouse 1447. There is also a "dugout"
iron bound sycamore chest of the C13-C14. (RCHM 1).
The Church of St Martin, Little Waltham Hall, Hulmans and The Old Rectory form a group.
Listing NGR: TL7121912702
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112827
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
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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