St Mary And All Saints

Bell turret C15, and spire. organ chamber C19.

Flint rubble cement rendered externally with dressings of limestone, roof of handmade red clay tiles.

The chancel arch is semi- elliptical, approx. 1.5 metres thick, indicating the junction between the C12 nave

C13 chancel.

The N wall has a re-set C12 doorway, blocked.

The S wall has a re-set C12 doorway with original plain voussoirs forming the tympanum arch.

The roof of the nave is plastered in 5 cants, probably concealing a medieval timber frame.

Also at the W end is a panelled gallery on 4 carved standards with gilt inscription on black paint to William Walker, citizen and ironmonger of London, 1704, and recording other benefactions, and staircase with turned balusters.

On the S wall 2 areas of plaster have been removed to expose wall paintings of c.1400, one of St. Christopher richly coloured.

In the 2 W windows of the chancel there are 5 small rectangular panels of Swiss glass illustrating biblical scenes, with German inscriptions, shields of arms and dates 1630-37.

The pulpit is of 4 sides of an octagon, each side with 2 masoned arches flanked by enriched pilasters and surrounded by an enriched frieze and dentilled cornice, early C17, on a panelled base of c.1700.

Stalls with panelled backs, upper panels with carved and pierced foliage, c.1700.

In the chancel a brass of Robert Barfoot, 1546, and Kathryn his wife, with figures of man in fur-lined gown and woman in pedimental head-dress, 9 sons and 10 daughters, shield of arms of the Mercers Company and a merchant's mark.

In the chancel a wall monument to Thomas Wynnyff, Dean of St. Paul's and Bishop of Lincoln, 1654, and floor slabs to John Wynnyff, 1630, and Robert Bromfield, 1647, and others.

There are numerous wall monuments to members of the Lockwood family, C18 and C19.

There are 3 bells by John Clifton, 1640, James Bartlet, 1684, and another. 'A church of quite exceptional charm and historical range' (Pevsner, Essex, 256).

See D.R. Curnocke: A Wall Painting In Lambourne Church, Essex Naturalist, 29 , 32 and plate 5, and E.C. Rouse: A Wall Painting discovered in Lambourne Church, Essex Archaeology, 25 , 101-2.