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St Mary The Virgin

South Benfleet

Essex

C12 west end of Nave.

Architectural Features

C13 Chancel arch.

Early C14 west tower.

During C15 the Chancel, Chancel arch, south arcade and south aisle were rebuilt.

Late C15 south porch, c.1500 north aisle and clerestorey.

C17 repairs and C19/C20 restorations.

Ashlar, rubble, flint and Roman brick, timber south porch, red plain tiled roofs.

North wall with angle and centre buttresses, 2 repaired C15 windows of 2 cinquefoiled lights, tracery over under 2 centre arched heads, labels over, 2 similar south wall windows with a chamfered 2 centre arched doorway of the same date between.

Clerestorey 3 C15 windows of 2 cinquefoil lights under square heads.

Nave eastern gable, 3 small C16 windows with rounded heads, one blocked.

4 C15 windows similar to those in Chancel.

Between the 2 south wall windows is a C15 doorway with moulded jambs and 2 centred head.

C15 piscina, moulded jambs, cinquefoiled arch in square head.

C19 and C20 stained glass windows.

Early C15 2 centred Chancel arch of 2 hollow chamfered orders, mid C13 responds with 3 attached shafts, continuous moulded capitals and bases.

4 carved face corbel stones to north and south walls.

C20 octagonal pulpit.

C13 Purbeck marble stem with C19 square bowl, 3 roundels to each face, foliate carved soffit, 4 side shafts, moulded base.

West wall, C12 doorway with round head, imposts and jambs of 2 orders.

High up are 2 blocked C12 round headed windows with wide splays.

Medieval glass quarries and borders to east and north west windows.

Since 1945 many windows throughout the church have been filled with stained glass figures.

South arcade, 2 centred arches of 2 chamfered orders, octagonal piers and semi-octagonal responds, moulded capitals and bases, some capitals are re-used c.1300 work.

C13 coffin lid, inscription in Norman French said to read "Here lies Marcelie, Pray for her soul".

Indents and 3 pairs of trefoils adjoining the bracket stem were all that remained of the bracket brass, fragments from elsewhere have since be relaid.

The slate commemorates Thomas Blosme and his wife Olive, the stone was laid circa 1400 when she died, Thomas died 1440.