St Mary the Virgin is the parish church of Saffron Walden, Essex.

The building as it currently stands dates predominantly from a rebuilding between 1250 and 1258, with a further rebuilding in the Perpendicular style begun in about 1450, the latter stages supervised by John Wastell, the master mason who was building King's College Chapel in the nearby city of Cambridge.

The repairs, carried out in the 1790s removed many medieval features but saved the building which was in a dilapidated state.

The spire was added in 1832 to replace an older "lantern" tower to a design of Thomas Rickman and Henry Hutchinson.

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