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© Mr Michael Booth AMPA LBIPP ARPS
IoE Number:
117611
Location:
WALTHAM ABBEY WALLS, INCLUDING CHAPTER HOUSE WALL,
WALTHAM ABBEY, EPPING FOREST, ESSEX
Photographer:
Mr Michael Booth AMPA LBIPP ARPS
Date Photographed:
06 August 1999
Date listed:
03 February 1971
Date of last amendment:
03 February 1971
Grade
II
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1. Waltham Abbey Walls, including
1767
Chapter House Wall
TL 3800 NW 1/1E 3.2.71.
II GV
2.
Late C12 or early Cl3, dating from rebuilding period after 1184, raising of
Priory to Abbey and before 1242, date of rededication of enlarged church. Rubble,
incorporating some flintwork, and red brickwork, some perhaps original. North
west section later became part of Abbey House and incorporates brick fireplaces
from the time of Sir Edward Denny, died 1399; mullioned and transomed window
now blocked. 2 red brick piers in centre of north wall have stone plinths
and pyramidal caps. Abbey House demolished 1770.
Church of the Holy Cross and St Lawrence, Abbey Gateway, Midnight Chapel and
Harolds Bridge, Walls of Abbey and Chapter House, Garden Wall and the Vicarage
form a group.