St Mary's Church, Mundon

Church Details


Redundancy Date
4/14/1970
Visited
07/03/2004, 28/03/2004, 22/01/2006, 27/11/2007, 14/09/2008 & 05/09/2009
Locking Status
Open during daytime hours - this can vary though - so avoid very early or very late attempts to visit.
Built
Nave, early C14; Timber N porch, c.1600; Chancel, early C18.
Restoration
1975 (repairs)
Restoration Architect
Julian Limentani of Marshall Sisson
Website
http://www.friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk

External Images

St Mary, Mundon Church - This is probably the most well-known view of St Mary - the first view seen having approached down Vicarage Lane, and the last fifty yards of mud track. Sept 2009 - Mundon St Mary recently re-opened, following several years of essential maintenance to make the church safe once again. This entry for Mundon contains several new images from that time. These are the larger images.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Brick east end of early C18 chancel. (Not the brick 'west' end, as was stated on my old website! - hopefully no-one noticed - or maybe you were all too polite to say!)

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St Mary, Mundon Church - The south wall here shows the blocked S chapel archway, and the brick window, both dated early C16.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - The north porch. My lovely fianc�e, Julie is hiding just around the corner! Hewett (Church Carpentry, Phillimore 1974) says of the porch, "the finest example of its kind seen in the county". It is dated c.1600.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - The north porch, seen here, slightly before sunset.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - The belfry, which at one time housed three bells.

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Internal Images

St Mary, Mundon Church - Looking East, towards the chancel. This is perhaps one of the most encompassing views of this church. The dimly lit interior really does give one a feeling of having stepped back in time.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - The chancel. Currently (July 2005), the church is closed to all visitors, due to the movements of the foundations. Even when I visited, the most precarious feeling place to be standing was in the chancel. Some of the cracks in the roof were looking rather monstrous. Despite feeling a little unsafe though, Mundon St Mary just draws you in further and further.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Looking west towards the tower.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Looking through the arch in the nave west wall. This view clearly shows the S 'aisle', and the entrance to the N 'aisle'.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - The W door.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Looking E into the nave, from the square area directly beneath the belfry.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Early C16 window on the S wall of the nave.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Detail of the woodwork supporting the upper tower and belfry.

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Monument Images

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Miscellaneous Images

St Mary, Mundon Church - Please support the Friends of Friendless Churches. See the 'Cover Sheet' for a link to their website, which details both Mundon, and all of their other churches.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - A wall painting of The Lord's Prayer.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - A wall painting of "I believe ...".

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Behold The Lamb Of God.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Wall painting above the E window.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Commandments 6-10, from the right-hand side of the altar.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Up inside the belfry, showing the last remaining bell of an original three. This is thought to have been cast by John Langhome c.1400.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - The simplistic, but fitting altar.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - The pulpit, directly in front of the blocked early C16 archway that would have once lead into the S chapel.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Box pews.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - This is the earliest scheme of wall painting, and has recently been identified as the Martyrdom of St Edmund, King of East Anglia by Professor David Park, Courtauld Institute of Art, Conservation of Wall Paintings Department. He is crowned and the Danes are shooting arrows at him from in front and behind. === Only the head and shoulders of the Edmund figure, in three-quarter profile, remain, outlined in red, with his hair painted red and his eyes painted black. Behind the saint are vestiges of a bow, hand and arrow: the bow outlined in black; the arrow and hand in red. Facing him are the remains of two hooded figures in profile, the nearest is shooting another arrow: this and the figures are outlined in black; their hoods are red. === Above the Edmund figure is an unidentifiable figure outlined in black.

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Postcard Images

St Mary, Mundon Church - Many thanks to Andy Barham for supplying this image. You can visit Andy's "Lost Churches of Essex" site by clicking here.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Many thanks to Andy Barham for supplying this image. You can visit Andy's "Lost Churches of Essex" site by clicking here.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Showing the church before being taken into the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches. Kindly reproduced by kind permission of the Friends of Friendless Churches.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Showing the church before being taken into the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches. Kindly reproduced by kind permission of the Friends of Friendless Churches.

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Spaldings Postcards - 1947

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St Mary, Mundon Church - Spaldings Postcards - 1948

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