History in Structure

Church of St Mary the Virgin

A Grade I Listed Building in Little Easton, Essex

  • St Mary: essentially c15 Perpendicular but with Norman origins

  • St Mary: neo Norman windows in the Maynard chapel, c.1840

  • St Mary: gabled east end of Maynard chapel, chancel & vestry

  • St Mary: c15 tower with diagonal buttresses; doorway with shields in spandrels

  • St Mary: Perpendicular nave

  • St Mary: Perpendicular chancel; early c18 wrought iron screen to Maynard chapel

  • St Mary: c.1175 painting showing a seated Prophet

  • St Mary: c15 painting showing stories from the Passion of Christ

  • St Mary: miniature recumbent effigy of a c13 knight

  • St Mary: Robert Fyn, 1420; priest in plain chasuble

  • St Mary: tomb of Henry Bourchier, KG, Earl of Essex, 1483; cusped tripartite canopy

  • St Mary: Henry Bourchier, 1483

  • St Mary: detail from the brass of Henry Bourchier, 1483; Yorkist suns & roses livery

  • St Mary: Isabel (Plantaganet), daughter of Richard Earl of Cambridge, wife of Henry Bourchier, 1483

  • St Mary: Isabel, wife of Henry Bourchier, 1483; surmounted by coronet; decorated cauls

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Entry Name: Church of St Mary the Virgin

Listing Date: 20 February 1967

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1097465

English Heritage Legacy ID: 353548

ID on this website: 101097465

Location: Little Easton, Uttlesford, Essex, CM6

County: Essex

District: Uttlesford

Civil Parish: Little Easton

Traditional County: Essex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex

Church of England Parish: Broxted with Chickney and Tilty and Great and Little Easton

Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford

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