St Mary and St Margaret Parish Church, Stow Maries

The church was built over a period in the 14th Century with a nave added in the 15th Century and then extended in the 16th Century.

A major refurbishment took place in 1870 which resulted in a school house being built next door.

The north vestry was added in 1912 and rebuilt in 1950.

The Churchyard

The churchyard contains graves of pilots from nearby Stow Maries Aerodrome who died during  the Great war.

A red cross on the steeple was provided in dedication to these pilots.

Memorials inside the church

A brass to Mary Browne is dated 17 September 1602.

Mary was the wife of William Browne and a daughter of Thomas Cammock of Maldon.

 

Worleys - A dictionary of the County

In 1915 George Worley wrote about the church

The church is chiefly of the 15th century, but it has undergone many alterations and was completely restored in 1870.

It consists of a chancel, nave and small wooden belfry bearing a short spire and containing one bell.

The building is mainly of flint, although the lower part of the nave walls has an intermixture of stone in its chequered decorations and upper part of the brick.

Amongst old features the rood star remains, with an empty niche near it and there is a cusped piscina and an elegant credence table resting on an ornamental corbel.

Brass to Marye Browne ( 1602) with effigies of the lady and her children.

Registers start from 1559..

Other pages about this church 

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