Parish Church Of St Mary (Church Of England)

TL 3517 THUNDRIDGE CAMBRIDGE ROAD (east side) Thundridge 9/12 Parish Church of St Mary (C of E) 24.1.67 (Formerly listed as Church of St Mary) GV II

Church. 1853 by Benjamin Ferrey for Robert Hanbury. Squared coursed Kentish ragstone with freestone dressings and red tiled roof with ridge cresting of pierced trefoiled tiles. Early English style, consisting of a chancel, nave, south timber porch and tall, buttressed western tower with octagonal SW projecting stair turret carried higher than the unbattlemented parapet. N vestry. 4 bells in tower formerly in the old church (q.v.). Varied window tracery: 3-light Decorated in W window, 2-light Geometrical in Nave, Lancets in Chancel, 3-light Geometrical E window. Drip mould of chancel S-door extended as a stingcourse. Collar beam roof with additional transverse collar beams along walls. Late C18 mural monuments. C19 mural monuments by Bedford, and Theed (Caroline Hanbury d. 1883: R C Hanbury 1867). Victorian stained glass. Commanding position high on a hillside overlooking the valley and village. (Illustrated London Newsl9 November 1853 p429: VCH (1912) 379: Pevsner (1977) 364).

Listing NGR: TL3587017177