Panfield

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Panfield
Essex
Church of St Mary and St Christopher's Church, Panfield - church from south.jpg
Church of St Mary and St Christopher
Location
Location: 51°53’57"N, 0°31’6"E
Data
Post town: Braintree
Postcode: CM7
Dialling code: 01376
Local Government
Council: Braintree

Panfield is a village and parish in the Hinckford hundred of Essex, near the town of Braintree.

The Grade-II*-listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Mary and St Christopher, although listed by[Historic England as 'St Mary the Virgin'.[1] Panfield's other listed buildings include the Grade I Panfield Hall, a 16th-century red brick house.[2]

No traces remain above ground of the mediæval Panfield Priory, an Augustinian monastery sited in Great Priory Farm.[3]

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