Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin (Church of England)
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), CHURCH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1347516
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin (Church of England)
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), CHURCH END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1347516
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin (Church of England)
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), CHURCH END
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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.
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 OF ENGLAND), CHURCH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Braughing
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 39619 25204
Details
Braughing village TL 3925 BRAUGHING CHURCH END (east side)
9/29 Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin (C of E) 22.2.67
GV I
Church. Early C13 chancel (consecrated 1220); early C15 nave, aisles, S porch and W tower; NE mortuary chapel 1638 for Simeon Brograve; restorations: 1838 (nave roof), 1852-3 by Mr Savill (tower and spire), 1855-61 (porch, clerestorey and windows), 1866 by Mr Perry (S aisle), 1872-3 (chancel refaced, nave roof repaired, and tower arch opened); thorough restoration completed 1888 by Edmund Buckle. Flint rubble faced in coursed field flints with stone dressings. NE chapel in red brick, English- bond, with plastered brick windows. Old red tile chancel roof, slate roof to nave, small copper spire with vane, metal roofs to aisles and NE chapel. Battlemented parapets to nave, rood-stair turret, tower, and S porch. Square ended chancel with lancet windows, C15 chancel arch of 2 splayed orders, and scissor-braced collar-rafter roof. Aisled nave with 4-bay arcades (re-used from earlier arcade-Pevsner) and clerestorey, Perp aisle windows, rood loft turret stair at SE of nave, and fine C15 angel roof with plastered panels, moulded ribs and 2 bays at E elaborately traceried and coloured. 4-stage tall W tower with set-back buttresses, W door with traceried spandrels and niches on each side, 3-light window over, quatrefoil openings on NW and S in third stage; 2-light openings to bell stage, and C15 tower arch to nave of 3 moulded orders. 2-storey S porch with pinnacles and gabled buttresses, 2-centred arched doorway in square frame with traceried spandrels, 2-light side windows, and 2 large 2-light windows in upper part (floor removed). Fittings include: a Della Robia type roundel in S aisle, C15 buttressed oak benches, C!4 octagonal font in N aisle, and painted Royal Arms over S door. Monuments: brasses c1480 to man and woman in S aisle, Barbara Hauchett d.1561, and in the chancel a full frontal bust to Augustin Steward d.l597, large standing wall monument N of alter to John Brograve d.l625 and brother with reclining figures, columns and arches with carved spandrels, and large monument S of alter 1772 by James 'Athenian' Stuart carved by Thomas Scheemakers to Ralph Freeman of Hamels and family with marble sarcophagus and 3 double-portrait medallions. Slate sundial on porch renewed 1971. (RCHM (1911) 66-8: VCH (1912) 315-16: Kelly (1914) 71: Pevsner (1977) 108-9).
Listing NGR: TL3961925204
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161172
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 315-316
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 108-9
Kellys Directory in Hertfordshire, (1914), 71
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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