Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD E10
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1293623
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD E10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1293623
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD E10
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD E10
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Waltham Forest (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 37681 86857
Details
TQ 38 NE CHURCH ROAD Leyton E10 (north side) 2/38 Parish Church of St Mary the 27.5.54 Virgin (Formerly listed as Church of St Mary)
GV II*
Parish church. Mainly rebuilt C19 with further alterations 1932; tower and probably part of north aisle wall understood to date from 1658. West end of chancel 1693; south aisle and vestry 1822, to design of John Shaw; bapistry 1884; east end altered and enlarged 1932. Brick tower and aisles; stucco clerestory; pantiled pitched roof. Mainly Gothic revival manner. 4 bay aisled nave, 2 storey south porch, lower chancel. Square western tower of 3 stages with corner butt- resses and domed C18 clock turret. Cuspless geometrical tracery to aisle windows; clerestory with square-headed mullioned windows, each with 3 arched lights. Arcade with octagonal piers and round-headed arches, and pointed chancel-arch understood to date from 1932. Roof trusses mainly encased. Some Victorian stained glass. Various monuments mainly C17 and C18, including elaborate monuments to the Hicks family beneath the tower and monuments to William Bosanquet (1813) by John Flaxman, on west wall of north aisle, etc. NPevsner ESSEX. RCHM, VCH.
Listing NGR: TQ3768186857
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206861
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Essex, (1903)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Essex, (1954)
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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