Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1337436
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1337436
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Maldon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stow Maries
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 83362 99386
Details
STOW MARIES CHURCH LANE TQ 89 NW (west side) 4/112 Parish Church of 11.53 St. Mary GV II*
Parish church. C14-C16, restored in C19. Flint and ragstone rubble with dressings of limestone and red brick in English and Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Chancel C14, Nave C15, heightened in early C16, N vestry, S porch and part of the S wall C19/early C20. The Chancel is of rubble containing ragstone, flint, brick and tile, exposed externally, plastered internally, but all the architectural detail, including the chancel-arch, is C19. The roof is ceiled. The Nave is of dressed flint and squared ragstone in equal proportions, forming a rough chequer pattern externally, plastered internally. The N wall has been raised in red brick in English bond in the early C16, with a parapet on a trefoiled corbel-table. The N window is C15, partly restored, of 3 cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a 4-centred head, with a moulded label and stops carved with angels. Further W is the C15 N doorway, with moulded jambs and a reset segmental-pointed head with a moulded label and decayed headstops. At the E end of the wall is a rood-loft stair, projecting externally, complete internally; the lower doorway has hollow-chamfered jambs and 2-centred arch, and is rebated for a door; the upper doorway has plain-chamfered jambs and 2-centred arch, all C15. In the S wall a large section of the middle and all of the upper part has been rebuilt in C18 brick in Flemish bond, including the blocked S doorway. It has one C19 window. The W window is C19. The roof is ceiled. There is a large timber framed bellcote at the W end, square in plan with a pyramidal roof, sides and roof weatherboarded, with a louvred vent with arched head on each side; it is of C18 appearance externally, but could not be examined. The RCHM reported one bell by Miles Graye, 1686. In the Chancel is a C14 piscina, with trefoiled ogee head with recessed spandrels and a decayed septfoiled drain. In the S wall of the Nave is an early C16 piscina with 4-centred head and plain drain. The C15 font has an octagonal stem with trefoil-headed panels and moulded base, and a C19 bowl. In the N wall of the Naveisq C15 niche with hollow-chamfered jambs and cinquefoiled head with 2 recessed quatrefoils. Remounted on S wall of Nave, brass of Mary (Cammocke), wife of William Browne, 1602, figure of woman, 3 sons and 4 daughters and a shield of arms. (Trans. Monumental Brass Society, XII, 1978, 271). RCHM 1.
Listing NGR: TQ8336299386
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 117437
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society in Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society, Vol. 12, (1978), 271
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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