Church Of St Martha (Anglian Methodist)

TRING PARK ROAD SP 91 SW (North side) 4/98 Church of St. Martha - (Anglian-Methodist) - II Chapel of Ease, now a church. Circa 1880, probably by Carpenter & Ingelow, then working on the Parish Church. Built from E but not completed. Fine chancel of uncoursed flint with stone dressings and steep pitched red tile roof. 2nd bay from E toothed for S side aisle or transept and stone arch blocked with red brick. Lower gabled vestry on N of flint and stone. W arm dark weatherboarded with brick S porch and slate roofs topped by a ridge vent. Chancel has fine 5-light pointed E window with reticulated stone tracery and hoodmould. Corner buttresses with stone quoins and offsets. 2-light traceried stone S window with quatrefoil in head to 1st bay. Ornamental ridge tiles and stone cross on E parapet. Sash windows with 3/3 panes to nave. Said to have stonework from medieval Parish Church made redundant at restoration. Full dedication may be to St. Martha and St. Mary. (Richards(1974)35).

Listing NGR: SP9195611040