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St Edmund

St Edmund

Abbess Roding

Essex

C14, C15, C19 with earlier origins.

Architectural Features

Chancel C19 3 light E window, N wall has 2 windows, the E of 2 cinquefoiled lights with uncusped spandrels and square head C14.

The reset early ogival C14 W window is 2 trefoiled lights with a square head.

Between is a blocked C14 doorway which apparently led to a rectangular, pentice roofed small chamber projecting on the interior.

In the S wall 2 windows of the C15 partly restored of 2 cinquefoiled lights under 4 centred heads.

Between is a much restored C15 doorway with moulded jambs, a 2 centred arch under a square head.

The late C14 chancel arch is 2 centred and of 2 moulded orders with a C19 capital.

The nave has, in the N wall, 2 windows, the E is of 2 lights with C19 tracery in a 2 centred head of C14.

Between is a mid-C14 doorway with moulded jambs and 2 centred arch with label.

Roofs of nave and chancel are C15.

TL5711 : St Edmund, Abbess Roding, Essex - Font

Late C12 square bowl font with circular stem and 4 small shafts and carved sides.

TL5711 : St Edmund, Abbess Roding, Essex - Font

© John Salmon

Late C15, restored.

Sounding board over pulpit on short fluted Doric pilaster with inlaid soffit and enriched cornice E, C18.

Monuments in nave, on N wall, of Sir William Capel 1613, on S wall of Mildred (Capel) wife of Sir William Lucklyn, Bart.

1633, by Epiphanius of Evesham.

Some fragments of C15 glass reset in SE chancel window. (RCHM 1).