Description

MAUTBY STOKESBY ROAD TG 41 SE (east side) Thrigby 2/48 Church of St. Mary 25.9.62 - II*

Parish church. Basically first half C14. Restored 1896. Flint with ashlar dressings and brick repairs. Plain tiles to nave and slate to chancel. 3 stage tower with diagonal stepped west buttresses. 2-light Decorated west window. No ringing chamber windows. Belfry set back behind string course. 2-light ogeed belfry windows with mouchette heads under square-headed hood. Flushwork crenellated parapet. Stepped diagonal western buttresses to nave. Gabled south porch with moulded arch. 2-light side windows. 2 timber nave windows to north and south of 1896. To west of arched north door a restored 2-light Decorated window. Windows separated by stepped buttresses. 2 2-light C19 chancel windows to south and one to north. Also to north chancel a double chamfered brick priests' doorway of late C14 date. Restored 3-light chancel east window : ogeed central light, cusped side lights; 3 squashed vesicas with quatrefoils. Wave moulded inner south doorway with one order of shafts with seaweed capitals. Wave moulded hood mould studded with fleurons on head stops. Interior. 4-centred tower arch on head corbels. Blocked segmental-headed window west of south door. C19 scissor braced nave roof. C19 chancel arch with blocked rood stairs. 2 consecration crosses in chancel. Arched C19 chancel roof. Bench sedilia and cusped piscina. Octagonal font : recut stem with trefoiled lights and quatrefoils in bowl panels.

Listing NGR: TG4605312393

External Links

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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