CHURCH (OF NO KNOWN DEDICATION)

CHURCH (OF NO KNOWN DEDICATION), MASHBURY HALL CHASE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

The nave and chancel are C12, when it probably had an apsidal E end. Probably in the C15 the chancel arch was rebuilt, the chancel squared off, and the W belfry added. The S porch was added in the early C16. The church was struck by lightening in 1872, and was restored in 1873 to designs by F Whitmore and again in 1890-4, probably by A Y Nutt, when the small W bell cot was added and the E wall of the chancel rebuilt. There were further repairs in the C20. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1265087
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH (OF NO KNOWN DEDICATION)
Statutory Address:: CHURCH (OF NO KNOWN DEDICATION), MASHBURY HALL CHASE

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2001-06-18
Reference:: IOE01/03661/01
Rights:: © Mr Anthony Stripp. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1265087
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH (OF NO KNOWN DEDICATION)
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH (OF NO KNOWN DEDICATION), MASHBURY HALL CHASE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH (OF NO KNOWN DEDICATION), MASHBURY HALL CHASE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Chelmsford (District Authority)
Parish:: Mashbury
National Grid Reference:: TL 65150 11856

Details

MASHBURY

719/4/390 MASHBURY HALL CHASE 10-APR-67 CHURCH (OF NO KNOWN DEDICATION)

II* The nave and chancel are C12, when it probably had an apsidal E end. Probably in the C15 the chancel arch was rebuilt, the chancel squared off, and the W belfry added. The S porch was added in the early C16. The church was struck by lightening in 1872, and was restored in 1873 to designs by F Whitmore and again in 1890-4, probably by A Y Nutt, when the small W bell cot was added and the E wall of the chancel rebuilt. There were further repairs in the C20.

MATERIALS: Flint rubble with some brick. Limestone dressings and decorative stone work at the E end. Tiled roofs and timber bell cot.

PLAN: Aisleless nave and chancel, S porch and W bell cot.

EXTERIOR: The E wall of the chancel was rebuilt in the late C19 and has decorative stone banding and chequerboard work in the gable. The 3-light E window is in a Decorated style. There is a C16, 2-light uncusped window in the chancel N wall and a cusped, C15, 2-light window in the S wall. A building break in the S wall may indicate the springing of the former apse, and a C12 window head has been reset nearby.

The W wall of the nave was partially rebuilt in the C19 following lightening damage, and the upper part of the W gable is brick. C16 or C17 brick repairs in the sides of the W gable and along the W ends of the N and S nave walls denote earlier repairs including raising of the roof. The timber bell cot of c.1893 stands on timber posts on corbels and has a cusped, 4-centred arch in each face. The W window is of two cusped lights. The N wall has a single, small, C12 window set above a C12 doorway with a round head and plain jambs. The N door is of three battens and may be C12; it has two strips of decorative C12 ironwork. There is also a 2-light, mid C14 window with tracery in the N nave wall towards the E end. The S nave wall has a C12 window just to the E of the porch and a 2-light window of the late C14 or early C15 with cusped lights. The S door is mid C12 and has three orders. The outer two have chevron and stand on shafts with chip-carved abaci and cushion capitals. The inner order is plain. The brick S porch was added in the C16 and has a depressed-headed opening under a hood mould and three uncusped brick lights on each side.

INTERIOR The C15 chancel arch has two chamfered orders dying into the side walls. The lower part of the E splay of the S nave window has been cut back, probably for a former rood stair. At the W end of the nave is a large structure that formerly supported a bell cot (the present bell cot does not rest on it). It has four, probably C15 posts with curved braces supporting a moulded cornice. The lower part is panelled, forming two small enclosures. The chancel roof has C15 moulded wall plates and an exposed pair of arch braces in the centre, but is otherwise plastered. The nave roof has moulded and embattled wall plates and an embattled rood beam at the E end.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES Late C19 choir stalls with poppy heads and tracery panels. Plan nave benches. Probably mid C19 Norman-style font with a square bowl on shafts. Stained glass: some C14 and C15 medieval fragments reset in the chancel N and S windows and in the nave N window. The former, early C17 pulpit has been removed to St Mary, Maldon.

HISTORY Mashbury the place is mentioned in the Domesday book of 1086, but the church was not included and the existing building of the C12 probably represents the initial foundation of a church there. It is a small parish with scattered settlement, the church stands in close proximity to the Hall, although other buildings including a rectory house are said to have been pulled down in the late C18 or early C19. The rectory had been joined to that of Chignall St James by the early C19. It became redundant in the early 1980s.

SOURCES Buildings of England: Essex (2007), 593 RCHME Essex II (1921), 186 Council for the Care of Churches Report, 1983

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The church of unknown dedication in Mashbury should be designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * Very complete small church of the C12, including some original windows and one original door including some contemporary ironwork. * Later medieval alterations, including C15 roofs, chancel arch and windows. * C16 brick porch

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 426052
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.