St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden

St Mary the Virgin
Steeple of St Mary the Virgin
Country	England, United Kingdom
Denomination	Church of England
Website	Official website
History
Dedication	Saint Mary the Virgin
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade I listed building
Designated	1951
Style	Perpendicular
Administration
Parish	Saffron Walden
Diocese	Chelmsford
Province	Canterbury
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Canon David Tomlinson
Laity
Organist(s)	Oli King

St Mary the Virgin is the parish church of Saffron Walden, Essex. It is the largest non-cathedral church in Essex with an overall length of 183 feet (56 m) and the spire, 193 feet (59 m) high, which is the tallest in Essex. It was designated as a Grade I listed building in 1951.^[1]^[2]

A Norman church was recorded in 1130, which in turn had replaced an earlier wooden structure. The building as it current stands dates predominantly from a rebuilding between 1250 and 1258, with a further rebuilding in the Perpendicular style begun in about 1450, the latter stages supervised by John Wastell the master mason who was building King's College Chapel in the nearby city of Cambridge.^[3]

Interior

In 1769 the church was damaged by lightning. The repairs, carried out in the 1790s removed many medieval features but saved the building which was in a dilapidated state. The spire was added in 1832 to replace an older "lantern" tower to a design of Thomas Rickman and Henry Hutchinson.^[3]

References

↑ Historic England, "St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden (1196237)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 11 August 2016
↑ History and Guides, stmaryssaffronwalden.org, accessed 11/09/2016
1 2 Lawrence Gooderham, Don Burns Illustrated Guide to St Mary’s Church Saffron Walden, stmaryssaffronwalden.org, accessed 11/09/2016

External links

Media related to St Marys Church, Saffron Walden at Wikimedia Commons

St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden

Members of the Greater Churches Network

Province of Canterbury	Bath Abbey St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham St Botolph's Church, Boston St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield Christchurch Priory Holy Trinity Church, Coventry St Wulfram's Church, Grantham Great Malvern Priory Great Yarmouth Minster All Saints' Church, Hertford King's Lynn Minster St James' Church, Louth St Laurence's Church, Ludlow All Saints Church, Fulham, London All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames, London Christ Church, Spitalfields, London St Marylebone Parish Church, London St Martin-in-the-Fields, London St Peter Mancroft, Norwich Pershore Abbey Romsey Abbey St Andrew's Church, Rugby St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon St Mary Magdalene, Taunton Sherborne Abbey Shrewsbury Abbey Tewkesbury Abbey Waltham Abbey Church Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick Wimborne Minster St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton

Province of York	Beverley Minster Bolton Abbey Bridlington Priory St George's Minster, Doncaster Halifax Minster St Peter's Church, Harrogate Grimsby Minster Hexham Abbey Holy Trinity Church, Hull Kendal Parish Church Lancaster Priory Leeds Minster St Mary's Church, Nantwich Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent St Mary's Church, Nottingham Rotherham Minster Selby Abbey Sunderland Minster

Church in Wales	Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny St Giles' Church, Wrexham

Scottish Episcopal Church	Church of St John the Evangelist, Edinburgh

Coordinates: 52°01′29″N 0°14′21″E / 52.0247°N 0.2393°E / 52.0247; 0.2393

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