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Latitude: 51.8119 / 51°48'42"N
Longitude: 0.5205 / 0°31'13"E
OS Eastings: 573843
OS Northings: 215586
OS Grid: TL738155
Mapcode National: GBR PJN.6F0
Mapcode Global: VHJJP.ZQ0D
Plus Code: 9F32RG6C+P5
Entry Name: Church of St Mary the Virgin
Listing Date: 10 April 1967
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1171104
English Heritage Legacy ID: 112616
ID on this website: 101171104
Location: St Mary's Church, Fuller Street, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3
County: Essex
District: Chelmsford
Civil Parish: Great and Little Leighs
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex
Church of England Parish: Great and Little Leighs and Little Waltham
Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford
Tagged with: Church building
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GREAT AND LITTLE LEIGHS
BOREHAM ROAD
Church of St Mary the Virgin
10.4.67.
I
The church has a late C12 nave and a circular west tower. The chancel was rebuilt in 1330 and there is some C19 restoration and a C19 north vestry and south porch. The church is particularly distinguished for its flint and rubble circular west tower with a good C12 doorway with chevron mouldings, small windows and five flat pilaster buttresses to the lower part. The spire with gablets was added in 1882. The nave has two C12 round headed windows in the north wall and one in the south wall,a C12 south doorway and two C14 windows with square heads.
The chancel has a restored internal string course, a good east window with reticulated tracery and a fine range of a piscina and three sedilia with crocketted heads and pinnacles, also a canopied tomb recess with fine foliage carving, crocketted head and pinnacles. The fittings also include a C15 octagonal font with a traceried stem and quatrefoil bowl with fleurons and shield, eight late C15 benches in the nave and an early C15 priest brass with the head replaced from a C14 brass. (RCHM I).
Listing NGR: TL7384315586
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