St James' Church, Chignal St James Explained

St James' Church, Chignal St James is a former parish church in Chignal St James in Essex, England.

The building has a 13th or 14th century nave with flint rubble walls including some freestone and Roman brick fragments, limestone and brick dressings and a tiled roof. The east and south walls of its chancel seem to have been rebuilt and a stairway to a rood loft added, both in the early 16th century, though the building has never had a chancel arch. It was restored in the 19th century and its north porch is modern.[1]

The church was declared redundant on 18 March 1981. It was converted to a private dwelling in 1989 by Patrick Lorimer.[2] A garage was added in 2008 following an archaeological dig.[3]

References

  1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/essex/vol2/pp44-46 'Chignall', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 2, Central and South west (London, 1921), pp. 44-46
  2. http://www.essexchurches.info/church.aspx?p=Chignall%20St%20James Essex Churches - Chignal St James
  3. http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-439-1/dissemination/pdf/essexcou1-42424_1.pdf Church of St James, Chignal St James, Essex - Archaeological Monitoring and Recording, 2008

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