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Key Image St Martin
High Street
CM5 9JJ Ongar (Chipping Ongar)
United Kingdom
Denomination: Anglican
Congregation: Chipping Ongar with Shelley (Diocese of Chelmsford, Archdeaconry of Harlow, Epping Forest and Ongar)
Geogr. Coordinates: 51.70387° N, 0.24636° E
Geo Location
Reference year: 1076
Architectural style: Romanesque and Gothic
Building type: Hall Church
Description: Of Norman origin, remodeled in the 14th cent. as a two-aisled hall church with a south aisle (today’s Lady Chapel); bell turret at the west end
Name derivation: From St Martin of Tours
Altar
  • Altar built in 1953, riddel posts dating from 1925
Pulpit
  • Oak pulpit (early 17th cent.)
Font
  • 15th cent. stone font
Windows
  • Altar window (1300, glass panes by Leonard Walker, 1929), replacing the six original windows, of which the outermost are still partially visible
Noteworthy
  • Window opening of an anchorite’s cell in the chancel
  • Piscina (c.1290) in the chancel
History:
1076:   Construction of the church
About 1300:   Six windows in the altar wall replaced by a single big window
Mid- 14th cent.:   Rebuilding of the church, renewal of the chancel arch
1753:   Addition of two roof windows
1814:   Door moved from the north wall to the west end
1884:   Church enlarged
Important persons:
Congregation member:  Livingstone, David (* 1813, † 1873, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa)
Monument:  Pankhurst, Emmeline (* 1858, † 1928, British activist for women’s rights (“suffragette”))
Patron:  Martin (316/17–397, bishop of Tours)
Sources
Snow, Keith: A Guide to St. Martin‘s Church, Chipping Ongar, Ongar Millennium History Society, 2015
The St. Bede Blog: Riddel Posts, http://www.stbedeproductions.com/riddel-posts/, retrieved 09/09/2018
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