Heritage sites in ONGAR PARISH

English Heritage sites near Ongar Parish

HILL HALL

4 miles from Ongar Parish

This fine Elizabethan mansion features some of the earliest external Renaissance architectural detail in the country.

WALTHAM ABBEY GATEHOUSE AND BRIDGE

10 miles from Ongar Parish

A fine 14th century gatehouse, bridge and other remains of the abbey refounded by Harold, last Saxon King of England.

PRIOR'S HALL BARN

18 miles from Ongar Parish

One of the finest surviving medieval barns in eastern England, tree-ring dated to the mid-15th century, with a breathtaking aisled interior and crown post roof, the product of some 400 oaks.

TILBURY FORT

19 miles from Ongar Parish

Spend a great family day out at Tilbury Fort in Essex. Explore the magazine houses or the bastion magazine passages of this fort on the Thames estuary that has protected London’s seaward approach.

LONDON WALL

19 miles from Ongar Parish

This is the best-preserved remnant of the Roman wall which once formed part of the eastern defences of Roman Londinium.

MILTON CHANTRY

19 miles from Ongar Parish

Milton Chantry is all that remains of a 14th-century hospital later used in turn as a public house, a Georgian barracks, and Second World War gas decontamination chamber.

Churches in Ongar Parish

Greensted Church

Greensted-juxta-Ongar Ongar
01277 532770
http://www.greenstedchurch.org.uk

Welcome to St. Andrews Church, Greensted, The oldest wooden Church in the World, and the oldest ‘Stave Built’ timber building in Europe. The church represents some 1300 years of English history and Christian worship. The 51 timber planks you see here today date from about 1060, although excavations undertaken in the chancel in 1960 revealed the existence of two earlier timber structures dating from the 6th, and 7th centuries, around the time that St. Cedd began his work of converting the Saxons to Christianity. The church bears witness to the work of Saxon, Norman, Tudor and Victorian builders who variously extended, repaired and restored the building over the ages. In 1848/9 the church underwent severe restoration works, and in 1990 works were undertaken to stabilise the church as it stands today, whilst in 2005 the spire was completely re-shingled in Oak. The body of Saint Edmund, King of East Anglia, and England’s first patron saint martyred in 869AD (the Normans replaced him later with St. George) rested in the church in 1013 on its way to Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. In 1837 as a result of a public outcry against their harsh sentence of transportation to Australia, the famous Dorset farmers known as the ‘Tolpuddle Martyrs’ were returned to England where they were given tenancies in Greensted and High Laver. In 1839 one of them James Brine married Elizabeth Standfield, the daughter of another of the martyrs at Greensted Church. The entry in the marriage register is still available for view in the church. The oldest grave, lying adjacent to the entrance to the church is that of a twelfth century Crusader, thought to be a bowman.

High Ongar: St James, Marden Ash

Marden Ash Ongar

St Martin's Chipping Ongar

High Street Chipping Ongar Ongar
(01277) 362173
http://www.stmartinongar.org.uk

We would like to extend a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at St Martin's Church, Chipping Ongar.This historic 11th century church is open every day for visitors and worshippers alike. Much more information about us and details of services and events can be found on our website www.stmartinongar.org.uk
You will be very welcome

We'd also like you to know that St Martin's, Chipping Ongar is committed to Safeguarding Children, Young People, Victims/perpetrators of Domestic Abuse and Vulnerable Adults.

Our Parochial Church Council has adopted the Church of England's policies and best practice on safeguarding which may be found on the Church of England's website.

www.churchofengland.org/more/safeguarding

St Martin's Chipping Ongar is part of the Diocese of Chelmsford. Further information about Safeguarding in the Diocese of Chelmsford, their Safeguarding Team and Safeguarding contacts can be found at www.chelmsford.anglican.org/safeguarding/safeguarding-contacts

Our Parish Safeguarding Representative(s) is Lisa Wickstead

Lisa can be contacted at church or by email - [email protected]

Please see our church website page on Safeguarding for further information:

www.stmartinongar.org.uk/index.php/about-us/safeguarding

St Peter's Shelley

Church Lane, off Fyfield Road, Shelley Ongar
01277 362173
http://www.stmartinongar.org.uk/

This beautiful and isolated Victorian Church, part of the Parish of St Martin Chipping Ongar with Shelley St Peter is available for weddings, baptisms and funerals all year round, and is used for worship one afternoon each month and a quarterly communion service. Much more information about us and details of services and events can be found on our website www.stmartinongar.org.uk. You will be very welcome.

We'd also like you to know that St Peter's, Shelley is committed to Safeguarding Children, Young People, Victims/perpetrators of Domestic Abuse and Vulnerable Adults. Our Parochial Church Council has adopted the Church of England's policies and best practice on safeguarding which may be found on the Church of England's website.

www.churchofengland.org/more/safeguarding

St Peter's, Shelley is part of the Diocese of Chelmsford. Further information about Safeguarding in the Diocese of Chelmsford, their Safeguarding Team and Safeguarding contacts can be found at www.chelmsford.anglican.org/safeguarding/safeguarding-contacts

Our Parish Safeguarding Representative(s) is Lisa Wickstead. She can be contacted at church or by email - [email protected]

Please see our church website page on Safeguarding www.stmartinongar.org.uk/index.php/about-us/safeguarding for further information:

Pubs in Ongar Parish

Cock Tavern

218 High Street, Chipping Ongar, CM5 9AB
(01277) 365261
thecockinongar.co.uk/

Attractive timber framed, plastered and weather boarded Grade II listed high street pub, located next to the local library and with good parking facilities only 20 yards away. Families welcome, popular with visitors from the nearby Epping O...

King's Head