Church of St Martin is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1967. Church.
Church of St Martin
- WRENN ID
- plain-quoin-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Martin, Wheeler's Hill, Little Waltham
- OS grid reference
- TL 712 127
- Coordinates
- 51.78679, 0.48102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Martin is a stone and flint rubble church that dates back to the 12th century. The nave and south door are from this period, and there is a Norman round-headed window located in the south-west of the nave. The chancel was rebuilt in the 14th to 15th centuries. The west tower, which features battlements, is from the early 15th century but underwent significant repairs in the 16th and 17th centuries, during which it was partly rebuilt in brick. This tower has corner buttresses with five offsets and is topped by a small cupola with a weather vane that bears the date 1679. The church was extensively restored in 1883, which included rebuilding the south porch and adding an organ chamber. Inside, there are brasses commemorating Johannes Walthan from 1418, Richard Walthan from 1426, and John Malthouse from 1447. Additionally, there is a "dugout" iron-bound sycamore chest from the 13th to 14th centuries. The Church of St Martin, along with Little Waltham Hall, Hulmans, and The Old Rectory, forms a group.
Local climate
Church of St Martin sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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