PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY

PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1166182
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1166182
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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County:: Essex
District:: Epping Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Matching
National Grid Reference:: TL 52519 11960

Details

TL 51 SW MATCHING CHURCH GREEN 3/57 Parish Church of 22.2.67 St. Mary GV 11*

Parish church, early C13. S aisle widened later C14. W tower added C15. Chancel, N organ chamber, S transept, S porch, N aisle and easternmost bay of nave and aisles added or rebuilt 1875. Flint rubble with stone dressings, tower cement-rendered, S porch timber framed, roofs of handmade red clay tiles. The nave has N and S arcades each of 4 bays; the easternmost is C19, the remainder have 2-centred arches of the C13, of 2 chamfered orders springing from round columns with moulded abaci, capitals and bases; the W responds are attached half-columns, that on the W side partly restored. The S aisle has in the E wall a C19 archway to the S transept. In the S wall are 3 windows: the easternmost is C19; the second is late C14, partly restored, of 3 cinquefoiled lights with tracery under a square head with C19 label; the westernmost is C19 except the splays and chamfered rear-arch, C14; between the westernmost and middle windows is the S doorway, later C14, partly restored; it has continuous moulded jambs and 2-centred arch with a moulded label. There is a piscina with trefoiled head and quatrefoil drain, late C14. There are 3 C14 grotesque corbels and 2 C19 head corbels. The roofs are all C19. The C15 W tower is of 3 diminishing stages with a chamfered plinth and C19 parapet. The tower-arch is 2-centred and of 2 orders, the outer moulded and continuous, the inner chamfered and springing from semi-octagonal responds with moulded capitals and plain-chamfered bases. The W window is C19 except the splays and chamfered.2-centred rear-arch. Across the NW angle is the doorway, with moulded jambs and 2-centred head, to the stair turret. The second stage has in the S and W walls a narrow pointed loop with moulded label, partly restored. The bell-chamber has in each wall a restored window of 2 trefoiled lights under a 2-centred head with moulded label. The S porch is mainly C19, but retains one cranked tiebeam with deep arched braces over the door, C15. The font has an octagonal bowl with moulded under- edge and base, on each face a quatrefoil panel containing flowers, shields, etc; stem panelled with trefoiled and cinquefoiled heads to the panels. The pulpit is octagonal with panelled sides, each side with 3 panels, the upper panels enriched with arabesque strap-ornaments and central boss, C17, partly restored. There are 6 bells, the fourth dated 1615, the sixth 1640, both by Robert Oldfield. In the N aisle there is a brass on the N wall to John Ballett, 1638, with figures of man and wife in civil dress and kneeling figures of 2 sons and 6 daughters with achievement of arms; and on the W wall a white marble tablet to William Dearling, 1790.

Listing NGR: TL5251911960

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.