Church of St Andrew

CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1265107
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Church of St Andrew
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1265107
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Church of St Andrew
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE

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

County:
Essex
District:
Tendring (District Authority)
Parish:
Weeley
National Grid Reference:
TM 15418 21528

Details

WEELEY CHURCH LANE TM 12 SE 5/160 Church of St. Andrew 17.11.66 GV II*

Parish Church. West tower C15/C16. Chancel, Nave, North vestry, North Aisle and North Porch circa 1881, E.C. Robins. All of red brick with some black diapering. The lower 10 feet of the tower of large bricks (11 1/4" x 5 1/4") the upper part of normal Tudor bricks. Stone dressings to Victorian build. Red tiled roof with ridge tiles. Chancel, stone east window of 3 lights, 4 centred arch, moulded label, band under, buttresses to angles, 2 windows to south wall of 2 transomed cinquefoiled lights with tracery over, 2 centred arches, buttress between windows. North vestry, gabled to north with 2 doors to east wall with a depressed ogeelight, under square head between, north transomed 2 light window quatrefoil over, 4 centred head and label. Staggered band under follows through the lean-to north aisle with two 3 light windows under square heads, those to east trefoiled ogees, buttresses. West window of 3 trefoiled lights, segmental head and label. North gabled porch, brick plinth, timber supports with tracery between, crenellated lintel, pierced bargeboards, coloured tile floor, north doorway, chamfered 2 centred head, label, vertically boarded door. Nave, south wall, three 3 light windows, 4 centred heads and labels, buttresses between, band below, plinth with stone coping. Pierced stone ventilators throughout. Stone parapet verges. West tower. Crenellated of 3 stages, western diagonal buttresses, south east angle stair turret with 2 loop lights. Diapering to plinth. Brick western doorway has splayed jambs, 2 centred arch of 2 moulded orders. West window of 3 cinquefoiled lights, vertical tracery, 4 centred head, label with head stops. North wall second stage chamfered brick single 4 centred light. Each wall of bell chamber has a window of two 4 centred lights with square heads and moulded labels. Interior not inspected at time of re-survey but said to contain in the Chancel, C12 shaft of Barnack stone with scalloped capital used as a Credence table. Font, C15 octagonal bowl with quatrefoiled sides enclosing shields and foliage, carved flowers to moulded soffit, stem with traceried panels. 2 bells, first, circa 1400 by Robert Burford inscribed "Sce Michael" and "Sancta Katerina Ora Pro Nobis". The second, circa 1500 by Thomas Bullisdon, inscribed "Sancta Edwarde Ora Pro Nobis" and "Pray for Vyllam Brooke and Agnes his Wyff". 2 centred tower arch of 3 chamfered orders dying onto plain responds.

Listing NGR: TM1541821528

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
425907
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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