Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338504
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338504
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, 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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Margaretting
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 66512 00422
Details
1. MARGARETTING CHURCH LANE 5213 Church of St Margaret TL 60 SE 12/382 10.4.67
B 2. A flint and stone rubble church of Norman origin but almost completely rebuilt in the early-mid C15, with a timber-framed, weatherboarded and shingled west tower with a broach spire. The roofs to the nave, chancel and aisle are tiled. The chancel was altered in the C16 and the church was much altered by restoration in 1877. A portion of the north wall to the east of the north porch is of Norman work and incorporates Roman tiles. The most important features of the church are the C15 west tower and north porch. The tower is supported on 10 posts with shores and cross bracing (of, Churches at Stock, Navestock and Blackmore, Essex). The lower stage is faced in vertical weatherboarding and has a tiled, hipped, roof. The upper stage and broach spire is shingled. The north porch has cusped bargeboards and traceried side lights. The doorway has a 4-centred arch with traceried spandrels and the oak door is of the same period, partly renewed. The king post roof to the nave is C15 and the chancel roof is C16. The chancel has a Tree of Jesse window which is made up of C15 Flemish glass, fragments from earlier windows built into its present position in the restoration of 1877. Fittings include a C15 octagonal font carved with emblems and a grotesque head, a carved alabaster wall monument to John Tanfield of Coptfold Hall (dated 1625), A C16 brass of Robert Sedge, his wife and children, of "Shenfield" (now known as "Killigrews") and the lower part of a C15 rood screen. The 4 bells in the belfry are all of pre-Reformation date. (RCHM 1).
Listing NGR: TL6651200422
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112879
- 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.
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