Description

MALDON

TL8506NE CHURCH STREET
574-1/10/13 (South side)
02/10/51 Church of St Mary

GV I

Parish church. C12, C14 west tower and north porch; top stage
of tower 1636; chancel rebuilt early C19; addition of south
aisle and organ chamber and general restoration, 1885, by
Frederick Chancellor, Diocesan Surveyor.
MATERIALS: rubble flint and septaria with ashlar dressings;
red-brick top stage of tower and chancel; plain tiled roofs.
PLAN: west tower, nave with north porch, 4-bay south aisle and
single-bay chancel with organ chamber to south.
EXTERIOR: massive tower of equal width to nave with diagonal
east buttresses and angle west buttresses. Some C12 moulded
stone built into south-east buttress. C14 west door with
similar detailing to south aisle of Church of All Saints, High
Street (qv). Moulded arch with vine-trail and hood, jambs with
attached shafts with moulded capitals and a foliate band, all
very worn. Blocked windows above. Lancets to north and south
sides, on the south side the head has been rebuilt in brick.
String course of reused billet moulding. Thin red brick top
stage with embattled parapet retaining bases of pinnacles.
4-centred bell opening with stubs of former tracery in brick.
East wall has small C17 window of two four-centred lights.
Timber-boarded polygonal lantern with shingled spire and
weathervane.
Nave: C12 unbuttressed north wall. A single round-headed slit
window to the west, deeply splayed internally with stonework
renewed externally. To east of porch a C15 Perpendicular
3-light window under hood. To east, restored C16 three-light
square-headed window. Red-brick rood stair chamber under tiled
roof, heavily restored, protrudes to east. Wide unbuttressed
north porch has pointed entrance arch flanked by pair of
trefoil-cusped lights with ferramenta; east lancet
incorporating reused stone; blocked light to west; C14 north
entrance with reused billet moulding to hood containing C18
doors. Porch re-roofed in clasped purlin form, incorporating
earlier moulded tie beams. Embattled parapet to C19 south
aisle with Perpendicular-style 3-light windows. 3-light
square-headed clerestory window of same date.
Chancel: 2-light Perpendicular-style windows. Large east
buttress with tumbled-in brickwork.
INTERIOR: Perpendicular west door between tower and nave.
South arcade has double-chamfered arches on cylindrical piers.

Springing of very tall, wide C12 chancel arch, which was
rebuilt in 1885. Rood stairs with upper and lower doors. Roofs
all of 1885, that to nave has alternating tie beams and
hammerbeams.
FITTINGS: C17 pulpit. Good early C18 altar rails with twisted
balusters. Font with gadrooned bowl. Paternoster and Credo
Boards now on west wall, together with late C19 painted
reredos.
(RCHME: Essex: 1921-: 175-6; Kelly's Directory: Essex: 1902-:
279).

Listing NGR: TL8569006752

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536899

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings