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St Peter And St Paul

Great Saling

Essex

Said to have been unfinished at the time of the Black Death 1348-9.

Architectural Features

Consecrated and Chancel added 1380.

C17-C20 alterations and additions.

North wall with 4 buttresses, two 2 light windows with tracery over in 2 centred heads, the eastern window with a fragment of medieval glass.

Gargoyles to parapet.

The Chancel with probably C14 wall plates.

There is a mid-C15 indent of a man and a woman with an inscription plate on the Chancel floor.

The floor below the gallery is tiled with medieval floor tiles.

Circa 1625 wooden hexagonal Pulpit is carved with angle pilasters and arches in perspective to panels.

Carved panelling in front of pulpit.

Late C15 octagonal Font with ogee headed panels and panelled stem.

C17 oak chest.

Graffiti, including 2 human figures and inscriptions John Guest 1608, P. Goodey 1782, Thos.

C14 screen at eastern end of arcade, of 2 bays, each of 4 trefoiled ogee lights with quatrefoil tracery, moulded mullions, posts and top plate.

C14 Piscina in south wall with moulded trefoiled ogee head and label, no bowl.

Part of an early wall painting and inscriptions to west of south doorway.

The round tower is one of 6 remaining in Essex and is the only example in the United Kingdon of the decorated period and, therefore, apparently the last of its kind to be built in Medieval times.