St Marys Church - Woodlands

Situated at 500 feet above O.D. at the southern end of a remote high downland dry valley.

This church was erected in 1850. The architect was Talbot Bury.

The whole Church is in a uniform mid-Victorian Gothic style, with a nave and chancel and north vestry and south porch, all probably built at the same time. There are diagonal buttresses at the east end of the chancel and west end of the nave, and the chancel arch is buttressed from the north and south. The windows are all in a uniform 'decorated' style and externally there is knapped flint, bath stone dressings and a plinth.

Internally the church is very plain. There is a plain chancel arch but on the west side are head stops of a king and bishop. Above the west window there is a scar of a higher two-centred rear-arch.

That said it is in need of some love and attention.

I am hoping to raise enough funding to replace the entrance gate and posts which have fallen into disrepair.

Can you help me with a few pounds in return for me hitting the roads running again at the

Whizz Air Hackney East London Half Marathon on the 18th May 2025

and the

TUI Palma Mallorca Half Marathon on the 18th October 2025.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH - BEST WISHES AND HUGS - MARC