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St Andrew And All Saints, Willingale Spain

Willingale

Essex

Parish Church, nave of C12, chancel of C15 and vestry and porch of C19 when some restoration took place.

Architectural Features

Of flint rubble, coursed in nave walling, with some freestone and pudding stone with clunch and Roman brick dressings.

Roofs are gabled in peg tiles.

The north wall has 2, C15 two light windows with cinquefoiled heads and moulded labels with between, remnants of blocked doorway.

The south wall has 2 similar windows and a restored C15 doorway.

The C15 chancel arch is of 2 chamfered orders with attached, semi-octagonal shafts with moulded capitals and bases, grooved for former road screen.

The nave has, in the north wall two C12 high placed, semi-circular headed windows and C12 door opening with C19 door with fine C12 scrolled ironwork.

a C13 lancet, a C14 two cinquefoiled light window with tracery in square head

a C12 small light.

The south doorway is of the C12 with square jambs of stone and Roman brick and semi-circular head.

In west wall is a probably C17 semi-circular leaded windowof brick. 'Portal' type bell frame now of only one frame but with double arched bracing to tiebeam, the inner pair, cusped.

Font of late C14 octagonal with quatrefoils in circles and alternate roses and heads on panels.

C15 piscinae in chancel and oolite altar slab with grooved and chamfered edge and recut consecration crosses.