Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165922
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165922
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stapleford Abbotts
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 50094 96122
Details
TQ 59 NW STAPLEFORD ABBOTTS CHURCH LANE 3/9 Parish Church of 20.2.67 St. Mary the Virgin (formerly listed as Church of St Mary) II
Parish church, mainly rebuilt in C19, retaining C17 N chapel and interior features from C14 onwards. Nave and chancel of random stone with limestone dressings, W tower of stock brick with limestone dressings, N chapel of red brick, English bond, roofs of red clay tiles. N chapel 1638, W tower 1815, nave, chancel, vestry and S porch 1862 by T. Jekyll of Norwich. E window, 3 N windows, 2 S windows and W window have geometrical tracery. The N or Abdy chapel has a small E lobby, with segmental-headed outer and inner doorways, plastered; above the latter is a date 1638 in brickwork. In the N and W walls are original round-headed windows, the arches externally of brick, the remainder plastered. External eaves cornice, cement-rendered. Coved ceiling. Original panelled door in outer doorway of lobby. In the E window of the C19 vestry, early C14 glass, with figure of St. Edward the Confessor holding a ring. In chancel, reset piscina with pointed head and foiled drain, C14. Pulpit late C16, hexagonal, sides panelled with arched heads and moulded pendants, arabesque frieze to cornice. In W tower, wall monument to Francis Stonard, 1604, and Lucye (Higham) his wife, 1596, also to Henry Stonard his brother, 1555, marble and slate tablet and panels of a larger monument with shield of arms. 3 cartouches of arms, C17, restored. Wall monument to Sir John Abdy, 1758, with large putto, oval medallion, portrait, and broken pediment on brackets.
Listing NGR: TQ5009496122
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118685
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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