page_title: Ramsden Crays
section_title: St Mary's Church
hierarchical_section_title: Ramsden Crays / St Mary's Church
caption_attribution_description: English: The Rear of St Mary Ramsden Crays
context_page_description: Ramsden Crays is a civil parish in the Basildon District of Essex, England. It lies north of Basildon and west of Wickford. The parish includes the village of Crays Hill and is located north of the A127. The River Crouch runs through the parish. The 2011 census records that there were 862 males and 976 females living in the parish
context_section_description: The 15th-century church of St Mary's has been converted to a private house. The entire church, excluding the bell tower and the broach spine was entirely rebuilt in 1871. Few elements of the original 15th-century church do remain. It is a grade II* listed building. In 1617, Thomas Bartlet described St Mary's Church:
  "Parish Church of St. Mary stands near the middle of the parish. The church has been entirely re-built in modern times, but incorporates some old work. In the S. wall of the chancel is a window with two 15th-century cinque-foiled heads to the lights and part of the moulded label of the same date. The N. wall of the nave has two windows, both with old splays and rear-arches; the eastern window has also jambs and head of two trefoiled lights with a moulded label, all of c. 1400".
caption: St Mary's church
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