Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Braughing

Heritage listing

Details Braughing village TL 3925 BRAUGHING CHURCH END (east side) 9/29 Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin (C of E) 22.2.67 GV I Church. Early C13 chancel (consecrated 1220); early C15 nave, aisles, S porch and W tower; NE mortuary chapel 1638 for Simeon Brograve; restorations: 1838 (nave roof), 1852-3 by Mr Savill (tower and spire), 1855-61 (porch, clerestorey and windows), 1866 by Mr Perry (S aisle), 1872-3 (chancel refaced, nave roof repaired, and tower arch opened); thorough restoration completed 1888 by Edmund Buckle. Flint rubble faced in coursed field flints with stone dressings. NE chapel in red brick, English- bond, with plastered brick windows. Old red tile chancel roof, slate roof to nave, small copper spire with vane, metal roofs to aisles and NE chapel. Battlemented parapets to nave, rood-stair turret, tower, and S porch. Square ended chancel with lancet windows, C15 chancel arch of 2 splayed orders, and scissor-braced collar-rafter roof. Aisled nave with 4-bay arcades (re-used from earlier arcade-Pevsner) and clerestorey, Perp aisle windows, rood loft turret stair at SE of nave, and fine C15 angel roof with plastered panels, moulded ribs and 2 bays at E elaborately traceried and coloured. 4-stage tall W tower with set-back buttresses, W door with traceried spandrels and niches on each side, 3-light window over, quatrefoil openings on NW and S in third stage; 2-light openings to bell stage, and C15 tower arch to nave of 3 moulded orders. 2-storey S porch with pinnacles and gabled buttresses, 2-centred arched doorway in square frame with traceried spandrels, 2-light side windows, and 2 large 2-light windows in upper part (floor removed). Fittings include: a Della Robia type roundel in S aisle, C15 buttressed oak benches, C!4 octagonal font in N aisle, and p

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.