Danbury
Essex
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 May 2025 to amend details in the description and to reformat the address and text to current standards TL 7705 719/29/60 DANBURY CHURCH GREEN Church of St John the Baptist 10.04.67 I A stone rubble church with stone dressings with a square west tower with a castellated parapet, outer diagonal buttresses and a shingled spire set back behind the parapet, considerably restored.
The nave, south arcade and west tower are of the C14.
The steeple was first built in the C15.
The roof of the north aisle is of the C 14 and has a castellated wall plate carved with effigies of Kings and Queens of the period, probably the Edwards.
Four of the back pews in the nave, (north side) are original, with poppy heads and carved with various beasts on the shoulders.
The armour suggests a date between 1272
The gallery to the bell platform has a railing of circa 1600, part of the Jacobean altar rail removed from the church during the Commonwealth, (RCHM 1 ).
6790 (Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), An Inventory of Essex South East, 1923, Vol4