Cash Grant Saves English Medieval Chapel

Posted by admin on Sep 1, 2009

A medieval chapel next to a moated manor house in Essex has been preserved after receiving a £138,000 grant from English Heritage.

St Mary’s Church in Mundon, which has an unusual early 16th Century timber-framed belfry, needed the funds to carry out urgent repairs.

The instability of the clay under the church led to fears the east end wall might collapse.

The church also has Georgian wall paintings which were under threat.

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