Description

Bures St Mary
1.
5377 Chapel of St Stephen
(formerly listed as
Chapel Barn)
TL 9134 26/73 10.1.53.
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2.
Originally a chapel said to have been erected by Abbot Sampson of Bury
in the late C12 or early C13, on the site of the King Church where Edmund
was crowned King of the Angles in 855. A stone rubble building with heavy
buttresses on the south and east sides. There are 3 tall lancet windows
in the east end and smaller lancets in the north and south walls. On
the north side there is a gabled 2 storey entrance bay with exposed timber-framing
and brick nogging on the 1st storey. The interior has 3 fine tombs of
the De Vere family removed from Colne Priory, Earls Colne, Essex. One
is to Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford (d 1296) has ogee arched niches
on the sides. Another to Thomas de Vere, 8th Earl of Oxford (d 1371)
also has ogee arched niches on the sides, and the third to Richard de
Vere (d 1417) and his wife Alice is of alabaster. All the tombs have
recumbent figures.

Listing NGR: TL9177034441

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542527

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)