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Great Waltham old fire station, South Street, Great Waltham, Chelmsford, Essex

This lovely Elizabethan timber-framed and brick built building, stands immediately east of the church and overlooks the churchyard. It has four fine Tudor chimneystacks and has recently been restored.

This parish church, Norman in origin, stands at the heart of the village which has many fine old listed buildings.

Variously named as the Guildhall, Bollingtons and Badynghams. There is a plaque attached to the building that states John and Agnes Badyngham lived on this site in 1371. This building is late C16 so they must have lived in an earlier structure. See http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-112757-bollingtons-great-waltham-essex for entry in British Listed Buildings.

The church tower was originally Norman, dating from the late 11th century, but was later strengthened with brick buttresses and heightened to accommodate a belfry in 1684 according to one authority. There are now eight bells, cast between 1336 and 1796. The upper half, housing the clock and bells, was rebuilt in 1892 by Alfred Young Nutt who was Clerk of Works at Windsor Castle. He added the battlements and the stair turret which is a feature found elsewhere in Essex such as at Ashen in Image The Gothic inscription, divided into two by the small west window and the elaborate cusp of the ogival arch, reads "Gloria in altissimis Deo : in terra pax hominibus bone voluntatis". The church is listed Grade I https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101122058-church-of-ss-mary-and-laurence-great-waltham Essex Churches http://www.simonknott.co.uk/essexchurches/gwaltham.htm

Norman Church located in the centre of Great Waltham, with later additions in the 14th and 19th century.

The doorway of the south porch at the church of St Mary and St Lawrence is flanked by statues of the patron saints, probably designed by the diocesan architect Frederic Chancellor, who restored the porch in 1863. On the west side St Lawrence, wearing a Roman toga, carries a Bible under his left arm and with his right hand holds the gridiron on which he was roasted to death in the persecution under the Emperor Valerian in 258, thus becoming the patron saint of chefs and barbecues. For more pictures of this church see Simon Knott's site http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/sets/72157629317328679/

The original font in the church of St Mary and St Lawrence dates from the 12th century. It was replaced at some time in the Middle Ages and came to light only in 1961 when the floor of the church was relaid. It is now displayed in the porch. For more pictures of this church see Simon Knott's site http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/sets/72157629317328679/