St Mary The Virgin's Church, Henham

Church Details


Visited
16/09/2006
Locking Status
Open during daytime hours - this can vary though - so avoid very early or very late attempts to visit.
Built
C13 chancel, rest mainly C14.
Website
http://www.henham.org/st_mary's.htm

External Images

St Mary the Virgin, Henham Church - The date of the chancel can be identified as C13, thanks to the lancet window, just visible here.

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St Mary the Virgin, Henham Church - This embattled S porch dates from C15.

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St Mary the Virgin, Henham Church - The tower dates from C14. It has diagonal buttresses, which extend into the nave, underpinned by a squinch. The brick battlements are later, as is the lead 'spike' spire.

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Internal Images

St Mary the Virgin, Henham Church

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Glass Images

St Mary the Virgin, Henham Church - Fragments of medieval glass in the E window.

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St Mary the Virgin, Henham Church - Detail in the S chancel window.

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Hatchment Images

St Mary the Virgin, Henham Church - For Samuel Feake, who married Anne, daughter and heir of John Hampton, of Hampden, and died 16 June 1757. She died 10 May 1723, aged 34. Details taken from Hatchments in Britain: 6, Edited by Peter Summers

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St Mary the Virgin, Henham Church - For Samuel Feake, of Durrington, who died, unmarried, 30 October 1774. Details taken from Hatchments in Britain: 6, Edited by Peter Summers

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St Mary the Virgin, Henham Church - For Mary Feake, daughter and co-heiress of Samuel Feake. She died 14 April 1803, aged 82. Details taken from Hatchments in Britain: 6, Edited by Peter Summers

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St Mary the Virgin, Henham Church - For Anne Charlotte Feake, who married Jonathan Cruse, and died post 1790. Details taken from Hatchments in Britain: 6, Edited by Peter Summers

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Monument Images

St Mary the Virgin, Henham Church - This monument is for Samuel Feake. Made in 1790, by W. Vere of Stratford.

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Miscellaneous Images

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Postcard Images

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