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St Barnabas

Alphamstone

Essex

C12, altered in C14

Architectural Features

C16, and restored C19.

Flint rubble, partly plastered, and red brick, with dressings of limestone, roofed with handmade red clay tiles and slates.

Nave C12, W tower added at unknown date

later demolished, chancel rebuilt early C14,

S wall altered C16.

N porch C15, S proch of unknown date.

The chancel, early C14, is faced on the N and E with dressed flint, C19.

In the N wall are 3 windows, the 2 eastern mainly C19 except the splays and rear-arches, c.1300.

The western window is c.1300, restored, of 2 pointed lights with a quatrefoil in a 2-centred head

the eastern is C19 except the C14 splays and rear-arch

Between the windows is a C14 doorway with chamfered jambs and segmental-pointed arch.

The C14 chancel-arch is 2-centred, of 3 chamfered orders

The roof of the chancel has plain tiebeams and king-posts of the C17.

the eastern is early C14, of 2 trefoiled ogee lights with tracery in a 2-centred head with moulded lable and wrought iron grille

the western window is C15, of 3 cinquefoiled ogee lights with tracery in a 4-centred head with moulded label.

Further W is a blocked C12 round-headed window, visible internally.

W of this window is the C13 N doorway, probably reset, with chamfered jambs and 2-centred arch.

The door is C14, of V-edged boards on ledges, with strap-hinges inscribed with a diaper pattern.

There is a pierced scutcheon-plate with drop-handle, probably original, and latch with S-shaped plate handle, C17.

The early C14 S arcade is of 3 bays with 2-centred arches of 2 chamfered orders

The roof of the nave is in 7 cants with rafters, collars and soulaces exposed, C15, and 2 later tiebeams.

The S aisle has an early C14 E window of 3 trefoiled ogee lights with reticulated tracery in a 2-centred head.

In the S wall are 3 windows, the 2 eastern C14, of 2 trefoiled lights with tracery in a 2-centred head, with wrought iron grilles

the westernmost is C17, with an oak frame and square head.

Between the 2 western windows is the early C14 S doorway, with chamfered jambs, 2-centred arch, moulded label and head-stops.

The C15 N porch is mainly timber framed, with later dwarf walls of brick.

There are 3 bells, the first and third from Bury foundry, c.1500,

inscribed 'Sancte Gorge Ora Pro Nobis' and 'Sancte Maria Ora Pro Nobis': the second is by Austen Bracker, c.1550 inscribed 'In Honore Scaunte Marie'.

There is a brass in the floor of the chancel to Margaret Sidey, widow, 1607, inscription only.

The font has a square bowl of Purbeck marble, with 5 shallow round-headed panels on each side, late C12, with later stem.

The font cover is of oak, domed and panelled, with turned ball-finial with fretted supports, C17.

There is C15 glass, re-set, in the side windows of the chancel, fragements of figures, suns

tabernacle work, and C14 glass, re-set, in the SE window of the S aisle, borders of yellow fleurs-de-lys and cups on a black ground.

There is an early C14 locker in the N wall of the chancel, with moulded jambs and trefoiled ogee head with finial.

In the same wall is a C14 piscina with mutilated moulded

cinquefoiled head, moulded label and octofoiled drain, the jamb-shaft restored, and another with chamfered jambs and 2-centred head, damaged quatrefoiled drain, C13, re-set.

In range with the first are 3 sedilia with detached shafts with moulded bases and capitals, moulded and cinquefoiled arches with moulded labels and horizontal string, early C14.