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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Wright's Green

Essex

The walls are of flint rubble mixed with some tile and Roman brick.

Architectural Features

The roofs to the C12 Nave, C12 - C13 Chancel, Cl4 Porch and C19 Vestry are plain red tile.

C12 south doorway is of Roman brick with rubble infilled tympanum supported by crenellated and moulded beam.

Of the 3 south wall windows the furthest east is C13 Lancet, C14

C19 work shows in the other two, whilst west of the south doorway is a blocked C12 window of Roman brick.

The Chancel walls may be of the same C12 date as the nave

were lengthened, if not rebuilt in C13.

It has an early C16 roof with moulded wall plate carved with running foliage, three main single hammerbeam frames with shields "the common couples between them are braced to their collars with their timbers forming depressed arches, above the apexes of which the collars are weakly cranked" The nave roof has a reconstructed octagonal Crown Post with moulded base

capital and a C15 moulded tie beam with curved braces and wall plate.

In the Chancel is a C13 Piscina with stopped and moulded jambs and trefoiled head.