Church of St Mary at Mundon

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St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Mundon, Essex. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.

Entrance to this medieval church

Squelching marshes, open skies and cockleshell spits make up the Dengie Peninsula in Essex. On it, you’ll find St Mary’s church with its curious double-storied Tudor tower wrapped in a timber-framed skirt.

Inside restoration has begun by the charity friends of friendless churches

The church closed in 1970 and has been owned by the charity since 1975.

Wonderful medieval church with a timber-framed skirt, in a desolate landscape that inspired The War of the Worlds.

Behind the church are the 'Ghost Trees of Mundon

It could almost pass as a spaceship. And in fact, Mundon’s apocalyptic landscape peppered with petrified oaks inspired the Martian landing scene in H.G. Wells’s, The War of the Worlds.

Here, it feels like time has ended…

But St Mary’s is just an hour from central London.