Parish Church Of St Mary

HIGH HALDEN 1. 5272 Parish Church of St Mary TQ 9037 17/169 16.8.62. I

1. Chancel, south chapel, north transept, nave with south aisle, wooden south porch unusual belfry tower at the west end of timbered construction with scissor trusses shingled outside with shingled spire above and on each side of it on the ground floor casing in the form of a wooden room (the north one now the vestry) so that the shape of the ground floor as a whole is an octagon. The nave is Norman, the chancel C14, the tower circa 1300, the south porch C14, the south chapel the north transept and the south aisle C15. C14 crown post roof to nave and aisles. Church restored by Street 1868. C13 font. The churchyard contains a tomb chest and some C18 headstones with cherub or hourglass motifs, one with serpent, book, heavenly crown and hourglass motif, an early C19 headstone with cast iron cherubs and some oval bodystones.

Listing NGR: TQ9016137236