The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Martin of Tours (now)
Parish church
Chipping Ongar is a small town in the Epping Forest district of SW Essex, 10 miles W of Chelmsford. The busy High Street runs S from the junction with the main A414 Harlow to Chelmsford road, and the church is tucked away on a side road on its E side. It is of coursed flint and pebble rubble with brick quoins, with a Norman nave and chancel with a 4-bay S aisle added to the nave in 1884, a vestry added on the N side of the chancel at the same time, a W gallery and a 19thc W porch. There is no tower but a weatherboarded W bell turret with a spirelet over the W bay of the nave. There are plain Norman lancets in the chancel N and S walls and the nave N and W walls, but the only features recorded here are the N and S chancel doorways.