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St Mary The Virgin

Arkesden

Essex

A flint rubble church with a C13 nave and chancel but very much restored in 1855.

Architectural Features

When the C15 west tower was rebuilt in 1855 there was discovered the remains of an earlier norman round tower.

The nave arcades are of the C13, the north arcade has circular piers and the south has octagonal.

The south porch is C15.

The interior has some important monuments including a C15 effigy to a priest, with a recumbent figure bisected by 2 arches situated in the north wall of the chancel, an elaborate C15 canopied wall monument to Richard Cutte

his wife with recumbent figures in the south aisle, and, in the west tower, a C17 marble wall monument carved with sculls and branches and with 2 good busts of John Withers and his wife.

There is also a military brass to Richard Fox The church is situated on rising ground above the village and it forms a prominent feature.