Church of St Mary the Virgin
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Boreham Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1171104
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Boreham Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1171104
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Boreham Road
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, Boreham Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great and Little Leighs
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 73843 15586
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 April 2022 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
TL 71 NW
2/146
GREAT AND LITTLE LEIGHS
BOREHAM ROAD
Church of St Mary the Virgin
10.4.67.
I
The church has a late C12 nave and a circular west tower. The chancel was rebuilt in 1330 and there is some C19 restoration and a C19 north vestry and south porch. The church is particularly distinguished for its flint and rubble circular west tower with a good C12 doorway with chevron mouldings, small windows and five flat pilaster buttresses to the lower part. The spire with gablets was added in 1882. The nave has two C12 round headed windows in the north wall and one in the south wall,a C12 south doorway and two C14 windows with square heads.
The chancel has a restored internal string course, a good east window with reticulated tracery and a fine range of a piscina and three sedilia with crocketted heads and pinnacles, also a canopied tomb recess with fine foliage carving, crocketted head and pinnacles. The fittings also include a C15 octagonal font with a traceried stem and quatrefoil bowl with fleurons and shield, eight late C15 benches in the nave and an early C15 priest brass with the head replaced from a C14 brass. (RCHM I).
Listing NGR: TL7384315586
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112616
- 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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