St Mary the Virgin, Monken Hadley
St Mary the Virgin is the parish church of Monken Hadley.
History
The church was built in its present form in 1494 (the date being carved in stone over the west door) although a church is believed to have stood on the site for over 800 years. The present building is in the perpendicular style, and includes two side chapels (in transepts) dedicated to St Anne and St Catherine. The building was heavily renovated in Victorian times, and contains large quantities of Victorian woodwork furniture. The parish and church were heavily influenced by tractarianism and the Oxford Movement,[1] and it remains a focus of eucharistic worship within the surrounding district.
The tower of the church, at the west end, contains nine bells which are in good order and regularly rung, eight being hung for change ringing, and the ninth as a sanctus bell.[2] At the top of the tower there is a signal beacon, part of an ancient series of signal beacons. The church markets itself under the title "The Beacon Church", and the beacon has become a symbol of the local area, and forms the badge of the nearby Church of England primary school.
It was the model for another Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, built in 1904 in Chappaqua, New York, United States.[3]
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- ↑ See the British History Online website.
- ↑ See the church website for details.
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