St Mary (church Of England)

Carving of pulpit completed 1872

Very steep pitched handmade tile roofs, and lead covering to fleche

Gabled S porch with pointed arched entrance, double doors, polychrome tile floor, side benches, purlin roof with ashlar pieces to feet of rafter couples, and 3-lights trefoil window in each side

Outside of S door EE style with trefoil arch, jamb shafts with annulets and dog-tooth band carving, vigorous flower carving to drip stops

On an iron crane fixed to the W wall a very tall C19 wooden font-cover in the form of an EE spire with carved stages, crockets and finial

Late C15 octagonal clunch font on heavy moulded base

Vivid stained glass by Clayton and Bell to all nave windows except those in N wall of which the middle and western windows are by the Kemp Brothers for the Clinton Baker family 1901, and 1904

Coloured tile floor

George and the Dragon and motto QUO FATA VOCANT: to William Clinton Baker d.1903 on black marble panel in white marble frame lettered in gold and armorial achievement carved with drapes on upper part

Stained glass by Clayton and Bell

In large arched niche on N side on alabaster tomb-chest panelled and inscribed with recumbent figure of a man in half armour wearing a ruff, trunk hose and jack boots lying on a straw mattress, Sir George Knighton d.1612

Brasses fixed to the rear of the recess c.1545 are all palimpsest cut from a Flemish brass of a bishop or abbot of c.1480, 2 more pieces of which are said to be the Wayte brasses at Upminster, Essex

The brasses were found in a box in the church in 1870 and are thought to be to the Knighton family

Steps to altar in polychrome tiles with some encaustic

There are other wall monuments to the Baker family and others here and in the N transept.