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St Ethelbert And All Saints

Belchamp St Paul

Essex

Circa 1130 Nave.

Architectural Features

C13 Chancel with some late C14 re-building.

Late C14 South porch with C15 Arch.

Late C15 Bell Turret possibly with C17 and C19 repairs.

Stone coping to east gable of Nave with C15 Apex stone, the stump of a former cross.

East window of 3 trefoiled lights under segmental head, the moulded rear arch C13.

In North and South walls are 2 late C14 windows of 2 trefoiled lights under square heads with moulded labels.

Late C14 Chancel Arch is two centred of 2 moulded orders dying onto the plain hollow chamfered responds.

Roof C15 of 7 cants with scissor braces and moulded wall plate.

Brick floor with C14 tomb with raised central cross ridge and ornamentation.

Glass C14 bordered heads to North East and South East windows.

Nave South windows C15 of two trefoiled lights under a square head and 3 ogee lights under a square head.

North window C14 of 3 cinquefoil lights with tracery in a 4 centre head under a moulded label.

North doorway with C12 chamfered jambs

a C16 four centred arch.

South Doorway circa 1130 2 order semi-circular arch, the inner roll moulded the outer enriched with chevrons.

Jambs of 2 shafted orders, spirally fluted and beaded with cable moulded bases, the capitals carved and scalloped with moulded abaci.

The depressed rear arch C14/15.

Bell Turret at west end originally on portal frames, now on 4 eastern posts, the central pair of which are carved with guilloche pattern.

C15 octagonal, quatrefoil panelled bowl with crenellated rim.

Pulpit.

Late C16 Oak octagonal with the upper panels enriched with arcades.

Fragments of tabernacle work of C14

South Porch has a C15 outer archway, 2 centred of 2 chamfered orders, the east and west windows are C15 of 2 cinquefoil lights under square heads, with segmental outer order of brick.