Parish Church of St Mary (Church of England)
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1281372
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1281372
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1983
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), CAMBRIDGE ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), CAMBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thundridge
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 35870 17177
Details
TL 3517 THUNDRIDGE CAMBRIDGE ROAD (east side) Thundridge 9/12 Parish Church of St Mary (C of E) 24.1.67 (Formerly listed as Church of St Mary) GV II
Church. 1853 by Benjamin Ferrey for Robert Hanbury. Squared coursed Kentish ragstone with freestone dressings and red tiled roof with ridge cresting of pierced trefoiled tiles. Early English style, consisting of a chancel, nave, south timber porch and tall, buttressed western tower with octagonal SW projecting stair turret carried higher than the unbattlemented parapet. N vestry. 4 bells in tower formerly in the old church (q.v.). Varied window tracery: 3-light Decorated in W window, 2-light Geometrical in Nave, Lancets in Chancel, 3-light Geometrical E window. Drip mould of chancel S-door extended as a stingcourse. Collar beam roof with additional transverse collar beams along walls. Late C18 mural monuments. C19 mural monuments by Bedford, and Theed (Caroline Hanbury d. 1883: R C Hanbury 1867). Victorian stained glass. Commanding position high on a hillside overlooking the valley and village. (Illustrated London Newsl9 November 1853 p429: VCH (1912) 379: Pevsner (1977) 364).
Listing NGR: TL3587017177
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355993
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 379
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 364
Illustrated London News in 19 November, Vol. 19, (1853), 429
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