St Andrew, Willingale Spain
St Andrew, Willingale Spain
St Andrew (listed as St Andrew and All Saints) is a Grade II* redundant church at Willingale, Essex, a Norman nave with a fifteenth-century chancel, vested in the Churches Conservation Trust. It shares a churchyard with St Christopher, Willingale Doe.
- Location
- Willingale Spain, Essex
- Country
- England
- County
- Essex
- City / town
- Willingale Spain
- Address
- The Street, Willingale Spain, Essex, CM5 0SJ
- Postcode
- CM5 0SJ
- Built
- 12th-century nave; 15th-century chancel; 19th-century vestry and porch
- Denomination
- Churches Conservation Trust
- Dedication
- Andrew
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Norman and Gothic
- Materials
- Flint rubble, coursed in the nave, with freestone, puddingstone, clunch and Roman brick dressings; peg-tile roofs
- Grid reference
- TL 596 073
- Opening hours
- Open daily.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England lists the church (1169175, 20 February 1967). The nave is twelfth-century, with high semi-circular-headed north windows and a twelfth-century south doorway of stone and Roman brick. The chancel is fifteenth-century, with two-light windows and a fifteenth-century chancel arch grooved for a rood screen. A weatherboarded bell chamber with a small spire sits on medieval belfry timbers. The late-fourteenth-century octagonal font has quatrefoils and alternate roses and heads. A fifteenth-century piscina and an oolite altar slab with consecration crosses survive in the chancel. The church is open daily.