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All Saints

Feering

Essex

C13-16, restored in C19.

Architectural Features

Flint and septaria rubble and red brick in English bond, dressings of brick, clunch and limestone, roofed with handmade red plain tiles and lead.

Nave of C12/13 origin, Chancel mainly early C14, N aisle early C14, W tower C15, S wall of Nave

S porch early C16, N vestry C19.

The Chancel has an early C14 E window of 3 pointed lights with plain intersecting tracery in a 2-centred head, the jambs and arch chamfered in 2 orders, and a hollow-moulded rear-arch.

further W is an early C14 doorway with chamfered jambs and 2-centred arch, blocked internally, with a hollow-chamfered rear-arch.

Above it is a blocked early C16 window of brick, of three 4-centred lights in a 4-centred head, partly restored.

The chancel-arch is reported to be by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1845, reproducing the original of c.1200.

The Nave has a N arcade of c.1330, of 4 bays with 2-centred arches of 2 wave-moulded orders

The S wall is built or faced with early C16 brick, and has a moulded plinth with panels of flint inlay, and a crenellated parapet on a trefoiled corbel-table.

It has 3 early C16 brick windows

Between the 2 western windows is the S doorway, C19 externally but retaining an early C16 4-centred rear-arch.

The roof of the Nave is late C17, of butt-purlin construction in 8 bays, with moulded wallplates with arabesque and other ornament, and 3 straight tiebeams carved with lozenges and wheat-ears.

The N aisle has in the N wall 3 C14 windows

Between them is the C14 N doorway with plain jambs and 2-centred arch of 2 wave-moulded orders

In the middle of the N wall is a late C14 tomb recess with shafted jambs, moulded ogee arch, label and foliated finial, restored with cement.

The early C15 W tower is of 3 stages with a moulded plinth, moulded bands between the stages, 2 diagonal buttresses, and a stair-turret in the NE angle.

There are 2 piscinae, (1) in the Chancel, with trefoiled head, moulded label and sexfoiled drain, early C14, restored, (2) in the N side of the N arcade, with wave-moulded jambs and 2-centred arch, defaced cusped head and repaired octofoiled drain, C14.

In the floor of the N aisle is a C13 coffin-lid, a tapering slab with double hollow-chamfered jambs (sunk in adjacent bricks), and cross with trefoiled ends in relief.

On the N wall of the Chancel is a brass to Judith (Gaell), wife of Robert Aylett, LL.D., 1623, inscription only

In the tracery of the middle window of the N aisle is C14 glass, foliated

tabernacle work, in situ, and reset below it, glass of various periods and national origins, including a roundel of a crowned rose with initials E.R., C16.

Remounted on the C19 door to the stair turret are C15 incised strap hinges, and an iron key-plate with protective flap, of uncertain date.

There are eight bells, of which the sixth, seventh and eighth were recast by Miles Graye in 1624.