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Terling

Essex

C13-C15, with early C18 tower, restored in C19.

Architectural Features

Flint rubble with dressings of limestone and clunch, the Chancel roughcast externally, roofed with handmade red clay tiles

Chancel and E wall of the W tower, early C13.

S arcade, S aisle, and S porch, C15.

In the N wall are 2 early C14 windows with 2-centred heads.

further E is a C13 lancet, blocked and visible externally.

Between the 2 C14 doorways is a C19 doorway to the N vault.

above it is a small window with segmental head, plastered and visible only from the E. The roof of the Chancel is of 17 couples with collars, soulaces and ashlar-pieces, all tenoned, C13/C14.

The S aisle was constructed in the C15, much restored in 1857, and all visible detail is C19.

The W tower comprises a C13 E wall of stone rubble, and the remainder built in 1732.

In the bell-chamber is a window with 2-centred head and label, C13, blocked on the W side.

The early C15 S porch is timber-framed, with C19 base walls of stone rubble and limestone dressings 1.50 metres high.

The outer doorway has hollow-moulded jambs and 4-centred arch, the spandrels carved with quatrefoils and mouchettes.

The original bargeboards are cusped and carved with quatrefoils

This porch, like the S aisle, was probably built by John Rochester, who died in 1444 (source below, in connection with the Rochester brasses).

There are 8 bells, the third by Miles Graye, 1623, and a sanctus.

In the E wall of the S aisle are 2 brasses (1) of William Rochester, 1558, and Elizabeth his wife, 1556, with kneeling figures of man in civil dress, wife, 6 sons and 4 daughters, and 2 shields of arms with some original colour, set in tablet of Purbeck marble with 2 round arches and moulded rim (2) of John Rochester, 1584, with inscription, kneeling figures of man in civil dress, 2 wives, 4 sons and 8 daughters, and 3 shields of arms with some original colour, set in tablet of Purbeck marble with moulded rim.

In the floor of the S aisle are 2 large brasses, of a man in early Tudor armour with a slit mail skirt, and a woman in pedimental head-dress, with 2 shields of arms and 2 indents for mouth-scrolls, believed to be of Robert Rochester, 1508, and his wife Elizabeth The communion rail is C18, with moulded rail and sill and turned and twisted balusters.

The font has an octagonal bowl of Purbeck marble, each face with 2 shallow sunk and pointed panels, early C13, and C19 stem and shafts.

On the jambs of the W doorway are C15 graffiti, of 2 shields and an illegible black-letter inscription.