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All Saints

Sutton

Essex

Early C17 chancel and nave.

Architectural Features

C14/C15 bell turret.

Date on south porch 1633.

South wall, 2 restored lancet windows labels over, that to west taller, the east window with C12 rear splay.

To the east is a blocked partly restored C13 doorway with chamfered jambs and 2-centred arch.

Nave, north wall, eastern C19 window of 3 trefoiled lights, tracery over, 2-centred arch and label with stops, western C12 restored round headed window.

C12 rounded headed north doorway, C15/C16 door of 4 nailed overlapping boards, one strap-hinge.

Eastern C19 window of 3 trefoiled lights tracery over, 2-centred arch, label with stops, western C12 round headed window.

The moulded, square headed wooden doorway with sunk spandrels dated 1633, guilloche pattern lintel over, round door arch with key block.

Below the windows the walls are lined with C17 panelling, partly fluted and partly plain frieze, names cut on west side Charles Hobson 1647, Samuel Purchas 1647 and ..ard Britridge 1647.

South doorway C13 2-centred arch of 3 moulded orders, moulded jambs of 3 orders have each one attached and 2 free shafts with moulded capitals and bases.

Interior:- Chancel:- C15 roof of 7 cants, square section 4 armed crown post on central tie beam.

C19 stained glass to windows.

Brass floor slab to south, from Shopland Church, of Thomas Stapel, 1371, Serjeant-at-arms, in armour with sword,pointed bascinet, comail etc., knee-cops and legs below missing, indents of marginal inscriptions, crocketed canopy and shields.

memorial to C. Tyrell MDCXCV over.

Medieval painting on splays of north wall C12 window.

Alabaster and coloured marble wall monument, mourning woman, urn and willow 1771, Chester Moor Hall of Sutton Hall, the maker of the first achromatic telescope.

Black and white wall monument to John White of Rochford 1797.

Medieval painting to C12 round headed chancel arch of 2 orders on the west face, the inner plain the outer roll moulded, the responds each have a flat half round attached shaft with moulded bases and restored capitals, moulded abaci carried around the imposts.

Simple stage octagonal pulpit.

C15 seven cant roof of 3 bays, moulded wall plates, 4 armed crown posts with moulded capitals and bases.

C14/C15 timber bell turret at west end of nave with 4 outer and 4 inner posts, arched braces to lower and upper portal-frames.

Said to be one bell by John Clifton 1638.

2 hatchments.

C13 font, square with 5 narrow 2-centred arches to each face, C19/C20 central and angle shafts with moulded capitals and bases, square base, octagonal plinth and floor slab.

North wall monument to Lt Wm Burchell killed on the ship Royal Oak at Chesapeke, 9 August 1814.