Wall To The Church Of St Mary The Virgin is a Grade II* listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1973. A Medieval Churchyard wall.
Wall To The Church Of St Mary The Virgin
- WRENN ID
- south-stair-martin
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1973
- Type
- Churchyard wall
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
691/5/187 CHURCH STREET 29-NOV-73 BOCKING CHURCH STREET (Northwest side) WALL TO THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
II*
C16 with C17 and later repairs MATERIALS: Flint rubble, patched with brick of various dates.
PLAN: On S and W sides of churchyard
EXTERIOR A C16 flint rubble wall, patched with C17 and later brick. It is embattled and has moulded stone copings. Near the NW end are traces of an opening. The N wall is C17 brick on a flint rubble base.
HISTORY The church of St Mary, Bocking is an important C14 and later wool church that has considerable work of the late C15 and early C16, a campaign of works to which the wall may be related.
SOURCES RCHME Essex I (1916), 33
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The wall to the church of St Mary the Virgin, Braintree, Essex is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * An important survival of a C16 churchyard wall, much restored in the C17 and later.
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