Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1141292
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1141292
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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 building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aythorpe Roding
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 58434 15350
Details
SEVENTY SECOND LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST COMPILED UNDER SECTION 54 OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1971
TL 51 NE AYTHORPE RODING PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
2/80 23.2.67
GV II*
Chancel and nave C13, bell-turret circa 1300. Restored and N vestry and S porch added late C19. Flint rubble, cement rendered externally and plastered internally, clunch dressings much restored. Roofs tiled, bell-turret weatherboarded, spire shingled. E wall of chancel has 3 C19 lancet windows. In N wall 3 C13 lancet windows much restored externally. In the S wall 3 similar lancet windows; between the 2 W windows is a doorway, C19 externally but with splays and segmental rear arch C13. Brick angle buttresses at E end, early C20. In N wall of nave a lancet window similar to those in N wall of chancel but more widely splayed. Further W is the N doorway, C19 except for segmental rear-arch. In S wall 3 lancet windows uniform with that in N wall. Between the two W windows is the S doorway, C19 except for splays and segmental rear-arch, C13. In W wall a lancet window uniform with that in N wall. Chancel roof has wall plates with two bowtell in great casement mouldings, the lower edge concealed by plaster. A short section at the W end of each is missing, provably indicating the former position of a roof loft. Framed in 7 cants, mostly C19, but with one complete rafter couple at E end and some reused collar-braces on C19 rafters. 2 plain and waney tiebeams, inserted. Chancel arch of timber 2-centred, C19. Nave roof has plain wall plates and 2 tiebeams, the E plain and wavey, the W moulded, C15. Roof 7-canted, C19. Bell-turret at W end of nave on 4 posts, with curved braces to E tiebeam but missing under W tiebeam, circa 1300 (Hewett, 1982, pp. 667). Date of spire unknown, but a spire was mentioned in 1768 by Morant (II, 468). Three bells, all said to be by John Tonne, early C16, and inscribed (1) De celis missi nomen habeo gabrielis (2) Virginis atq matri resonet campana marie (3) Hec fratris simonis andree nomen habqto. Stone coffin-lid set in floor of nave near SE angle, with raised cross, much worn, C13. Floor-slab in nave to William Cowland, 1687. Piscina in S corner of chancel, with chamfered 2-centred head and 2 round drains, C13. Three plain benches, C16, and 5 others rebuilt with some later timber. Pulpit, font, all other benches C19. S door-leaf is C19 but incorporates older stock-lock, latch and nails. RCHM 1.
Listing NGR: TL5843415350
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352621
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morant, P, The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, (1768), 468
Hewett, C A, Church Carpentry A Study Based on Essex Examples, (1982), 667
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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