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The Holy Innocents

Lamarsh

Essex

C12, altered in C14, restored 1869.

Architectural Features

Flint rubble with cement rendering and dressings of clunch, S porch of red brick in English bond, roofs of handmade red clay tiles.

Round W tower, C12 or earlier, nave C12, chancel rebuilt in C14, and extended approx. 1 metre to E in 1869.

S porch c.1500.

Between the windows is a C14 doorway with chamfered jambs and 2-centred head, restored.

The nave has in the N wall 2 windows, C19 except for the C14 rear-arches and splays.

At the E end of the wall are the early C16 lower and upper doorways of the stair to the rood-loft, both with chamfered jambs and 4-centred arches of brick, blocked.

the eastern is late C15, of 2 cinquefoiled lights in a 4-centred head with moulded label and head, restored

the western is early C14, of 2 trefoiled ogee lights with flowing tracery in a 2-centred head with moulded label.

Further W is the S doorway, c.1500, with moulded jambs and 4- centred arch of brick, formerly plastered.

The door is of V-edged boards with strap-hinges having incised herringbone patterns, substantially C14, on a rear frame rebuilt in the C19.

The roof of the nave is in 5 cants, plastered to the soffit, probably medieval.

The W tower is early C12 or possibly earlier, built in 3 stages, undivided externally.

There is a lancet window, c.1200, in the first stage, a round-headed loop in the second stage, and another in the bell-chamber.

The S porch, c.1500, has an outer doorway with double-chamfered jambs and 4-centred head with moulded label.

There is a C14 stoup with plain round head E of the main door, and V- headed niches in the SE and SW corners.