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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Essendon

Hertfordshire

C15 W tower, restored

Architectural Features

4-stage W tower was rebuilt at top in C17 when cross bar 2-light windows with Tudor hoods were inserted

W door surmounted by 3-light C15 style windows

Gabled porches N and S. C14- style window tracery

Interior has font in S aisle of nave of Wedgwood's Black Basalt ware

Nearby on S wall is brass to W. Tooke, 1588, and alabaster wall monument to W Prestley (d. 1664) with spiral columns and oval plaque surrounded by leaf carving

Late C19 marble monument of 2 sleeping children in N chancel aisle by W Theed