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Dunmow Road, DUNMOW, CM6 3PJ

This pub, now run by Greene King, was once a house run by the local Essex brewer, Ridleys, which had its brewery at nearby Hartford End.

The main road used to be the A130.

This is one of the few remaining "peculiar" chapels (outside the authority of the diocesan bishops). It dates from the late C15 and has a priests house attached. It is a small timber-framed building consisting of a nave, a C19 aisle on the north side and a tiny chancel. The nave is of 4 unequal bays and the C19 windows pointed heads rise above the level of the roof on the south side and are enclosed by 3 gabled dormers. There is a small bell core at the west end faced with cedar shingles. The chancel is of. 2 small bays with a small window in each wall. The interior is particularly interesting and little changed since the C18. On the north side of the nave are 12 C15 benches, on the south side C18-C19 box pews with some C17 panelling incorporated and a double decker pulpit. At the west end is a small gallery containing a tiny barrel organ. probably over 100 years old. Between the nave and chancel is a Cl5-Cl6 screen of 9 bays with traceried heads.The roof of the nave formerly had tie beams but these have been cut off to form hammer beams. There is a miniature font. The building was restored after bomb damage in the 1939-45 war.

View from the south-east. The scale is cottagey, the structure timber-framed, and the building stands at a distance from any village or hamlet. The nave and chancel are medieval in origin, whereas the north aisle (to the right in this picture) is said to be a 19th-century addition.

This is one of the few remaining "peculiar" chapels (outside the authority of the diocesan bishops). It dates from the late C15 and has a priests house attached. It is a small timber-framed building consisting of a nave, a C19 aisle on the north side and a tiny chancel. The nave is of 4 unequal bays and the C19 windows pointed heads rise above the level of the roof on the south side and are enclosed by 3 gabled dormers. There is a small bell core at the west end faced with cedar shingles. The chancel is of. 2 small bays with a small window in each wall. The interior is particularly interesting and little changed since the C18. On the north side of the nave are 12 C15 benches, on the south side C18-C19 box pews with some C17 panelling incorporated and a double decker pulpit. At the west end is a small gallery containing a tiny barrel organ. probably over 100 years old. Between the nave and chancel is a Cl5-Cl6 screen of 9 bays with traceried heads.The roof of the nave formerly had tie beams but these have been cut off to form hammer beams. There is a miniature font. The building was restored after bomb damage in the 1939-45 war.

This little building - with its priest's house attached at the west end - stands by itself, well apart from any other habitation. The view here is from the east - my eye being attracted to the jumble of roof heights. Pevsner (in the Essex volume of 'The Buildings of England') has this to say: 'The rare case of a surviving entirely timber-framed ecclesiastical building, and also the rare case of a medieval chapel with attached priest's house'. - To which I would add that from outside it isn't obvious that this is a timber building, though the timber frame is clearly visible once you peep through the windows. Inside there are traces of medieval wall paintings, but outside it is the 'Gothick' windows, neat plaster-work and cottagey barge-boards (under the eaves) that catch the eye. The Gothick features date from the Gothic Revival of the late 18th and early 19th centuries - and it seems to me that features of that period set the tone. It takes some effort to imagine the building as it may have looked 500 years ago. I suspect the timber structure was then less well concealed. You have to imagine away the present-day primness and think, say, of Thaxted: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3546183

This is a rare case of an entirely timber-framed ecclesiastical building, which consists of a medieval chapel with attached priest's house. It stands close to the roadside on the B1008 (formerly A130), between Great Waltham and Great Dunmow.