English Heritage sites near Stansted Parish
OLD SOAR MANOR
5 miles from Stansted Parish
A small but complete portion of a stone manor house built about 1290. The first floor 'solar' private chamber, with attendant chapel and garderobe, stands over a vaulted undercroft.
ST LEONARD'S TOWER
5 miles from Stansted Parish
An early and well-preserved example of a small free-standing Norman tower keep, surviving almost to its original height.
EYNSFORD CASTLE
5 miles from Stansted Parish
The substantial stone walls of a very early Norman 'enclosure castle', begun c.1085-7 and unusually little altered by later building works. This rare survival stands in an attractive village setting.
LULLINGSTONE ROMAN VILLA
6 miles from Stansted Parish
Among the most outstanding Roman villa survivals in Britain, Lullingstone provides a unique all weather family day out. See fascinating Roman artifacts and enjoy a specially commissioned light show.
MILTON CHANTRY
8 miles from Stansted 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.
KIT'S COTY HOUSE AND LITTLE KIT'S COTY HOUSE
8 miles from Stansted Parish
The remains of two megalithic 'dolmen' burial chambers. Impressive Kit's Coty has three uprights and a massive capstone: Little Kit's Coty, alias the Countless Stones, is now a jumble of sarsens.
Churches in Stansted Parish
Holy Innocents
Vigo Road
Fairseat
Sevenoaks
(01732) 822494
We are a church community comprising three villages stretched along the north downs in Kent.
The mother church, St Mary the Virgin in the village of Stansted is the centre of our acivities benefitting from a recent extension connected to the main church via a glazed link which includes toilet facilities, an Audio Visual display system and kitchenette. St Mary's church dates from the 14c and although being extensively refurbished in 1883, still has many of the original features.
The Church of the Holy Innocents in the village of Fairseat was built in 1930 as a chapel for the adjacent children's convalescent home, being given to the Church of England by the landowner St Sidney Waterlow when the convalescent home closed.
Vigo Church is held in Vigo village hall serving the people of Vigo Village, a moden rural development with a population of about 2000. Vigo church services are best described as lively with a music group, songs from Mision Praise and relaxed atmosphere.
Holy Innocents church is a small cruciform church, the altar standing in a recess which forms the eastern arm, but the chancel and nave are of uniform width. The south transept contains an organ and pulpit. The north transept comprises a porch, newly converted kitchen and toilet. (formerly the vestry). Beyond the transept is a two bay nave.
The single manual organ is by Osmonds of Taunton.
The church was originally built in 1930 for the children of the nearby convalescent home by Sir Phillip Hickson Waterlow Bt.
The church is high quality built using two inch soft red stock bricks.The roofs are tiled in deep red machine made nib tiles with swept valleys and purpose made hip and half round ridge tiles.
Internally the church is plastered below the common rafter exposing two pine hammer beam trusses with iron straining bars. There is a circular stained glass window in the east elevation and a small square window on the south side of the chancel also contains stained glass of a more traditional design. Other windows are glazed with hammered glass squares in metal frames.
There are no burials so the churchyard is laid to grass studded with decorative trees. The robust brick built lychgate with its tiled roof is similar in design to the church. A bell hangs over the oak entrance gate. The church is bounded by a brick and flint boundary wall on the east and north sides and trees and shrubs on the other two sides.
For information on St Mary's Stansted, Vigo and Fairseat please visit our website or Facebook Page using the links below:
facebook.com/stmarysstansted
St Mary the Virgin
Tumblefield Road
Stansted,
Sevenoaks
Kent
(01732) 822494
https://www.stmarysstansted.com
The mother church, St Mary the Virgin in the village of Stansted is the centre of our acivities benefitting from a recent extension connected to the main church via a glazed link which includes toilet facilities, an Audio Visual display system and kitchenette. St Mary's church dates from the 14c and although being extensively refurbished in 1883, still has many of the original features.
The Church of the Holy Innocents in the village of Fairseat was built in 1930 as a chapel for the adjacent children's convalescent home, being given to the Church of England by the landowner St Sidney Waterlow in memory of his wife and family.
Vigo Church is held in Vigo village hall serving the people of Vigo Village, a moden rural development with a population of about 2000. Vigo church services are best described as lively with a music group, songs from Mision Praise and relaxed atmosphere.
Pubs in Stansted Parish
Anchor & Hope
7 South Ash Road, Ash, TN15 7ER
(01474) 872382
anchorandhope-ash.com/
Black Horse
Tumblefield Road, Stansted, TN15 7PR
(01732) 822355
theblackhorsestansted.co.uk