St. Mary’s Church
Church Street, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 - England, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1799 500947
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The parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin is the largest in Essex, with an overall length of 183 feet, whilst the height of the tower and spire is 193 feet. The East Saxons who gave their name to Essex were pagan, but after St. Cedd led their conversion to Christianity in the 7th Century there was in all probability a Saxon wooden church here. The massive Norman stone church that was known to exist in 1130 was rebuilt and enlarged in the early form of the ’Decorated’ period between 1250 and 1258. A general rebuilding in the ’Perpendicular’ style was begun in about 1450.
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