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A stone church with a square tower and tiled roof, set in a graveyard with a central path leading to a small porch entrance.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

St Mary, Great Eversden

History of St Mary

Listed Building

Parish church. Rebuilt after a fire in 1466. Restorations of 1864 and 1920. (Historic England)

A church existed by 1092; it was probably built before 1066 to serve both villages. It was damaged by a lightening strike 8th July 1466 and rebuilt in 1500.

Stone church with a square crenellated tower, tiled roofs, and arched windows, surrounded by a grassy graveyard with headstones.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

A stone church with a crenellated tower and tiled roof, featuring arched windows and a wooden door set in a grassy churchyard.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

A medieval stone church with a battlemented tower and tiled roof, set in a grassy churchyard under a partly cloudy sky.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

The stone porch of St Mary’s church features a gabled roof, a carved 1636 date plaque, and a wooden picket gate entrance.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

The porch was added in 1636.

Interior of a timber-framed porch with a brick floor, showing a notice board, tennis rackets, and a wooden gate to outside.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

Interior of a church with wooden beams, white walls, and rows of pews facing an altar beneath a large stone pointed archway.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

A triangular wall section below the timber roof trusses features faded, reddish-brown painted figures on a white background.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

Faded wall painting of a religious figure framed by triangular wooden beams in the corner of a room at St Mary's Church.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

Torso of crucified Christ.

Interior of a church nave featuring a high, white-vaulted ceiling with dark exposed timber beams and a pipe organ on the right.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

A dark wooden misericord seat with central floral carving flanked by a shield and an ornate circular relief between armrests.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

Dark wood carving featuring a central shield with cross motifs flanked by a floral rose and a carved human-like face.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

A wooden misericord seat featuring a central shield with crosses flanked by a carved Tudor rose and a stylized lion face.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

Dark grey stone floor slab engraved with an ornate circular coat of arms above text memorialising Richard Rofe who died 1742.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

A 1:2,500 scale Ordnance Survey map from 1887 showing field boundaries, buildings, and St Mary’s Church in Great Eversden.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

A framed drawing on paper featuring detailed watercolor illustrations of various local wild flowers arranged in a row.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

Watercolour of wild flowers by Nellie Riley.

A weathered wooden grave marker in the shape of a cross bears the raised inscription Mildred Course, Died Sep 21 1919 Aged 19.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

Weathered wooden grave cross bearing the inscription Walter Course died Jan 15 1958 aged 70 years, set in soil and leaves.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

White stone headstone featuring a crest of a crown over crossed machine guns, with engraved military and personal details.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

A weathered wooden cross grave marker stands in leaf litter, inscribed: Martha Course, died Aug 24 1955, age 86.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

A weathered stone gravestone with arched top, inscribed in memory of John Finch Esq, surrounded by ivy and dry grasses.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

A rusted metal grave marker in the shape of a cross stands in grass and autumn leaves, inscribed with text including 1915.

St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

Framed by two large, bare tree trunks, a landscape view opens onto expansive, flat fields under a grey, cloudy sky.

View from St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

A landscape viewed through two large, bare tree trunks framing a cultivated field under a cloudy, overcast sky.

View from St Mary, Great Eversden (RGL2025)

Building dates

Built by 1466

Source for this date

Built by 1466: Listed building: by 1466 (grade II*)

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