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St Christopher Willingale Doe

St Christopher Willingale Doe

Willingale

Essex

Parish Church, chancel and nave late C14, tower

Architectural Features

porch mid C15, north aisle added and rest substantially restored in C19.

Walling is of flint rubble with fragments of free stone and Roman bricks, with limestone and clunch dressings.

Nave and chancel roofs are gabled in peg tiles.

Chancel has C19 east window but with C15 rear arch and label.

North and south walls each have 2 late C14 windows restored.

On south wall is a C14 doorway almost entirely reconstructed.

Late C14 chancel arch with 2 hollow chamfered orders and moulded capitals.

In the south wall are 3 late C14 style windows each of 2 lights and the original, late C14 south doorway with moulded jambs, a 2-centred arch and C19 label.

Chancel has a moulded wallplate of C14/C15.

C15 stone font, octagonal with each face having quatrefoils inscribed in circle and blank shields.

Monument in chancel to Robert Wiseman 1641, Richard Wiseman, 1618, and Mary, his wife, 1635.

Smaller kneeling figures in civil costume of man and wife.

Also in chancel, wall monument to Johannes Salter 1744, and in nave, to Winifred Barrington of marble with cupids.