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St Mary The Virgin

Church End

Essex

I The church has a late C12 nave and a circular west tower.

Architectural Features

The chancel was rebuilt in 1330 and there is some C19 restoration and a C19 north vestry and south porch.

The church is particularly distinguished for its flint and rubble circular west tower with a good C12 doorway with chevron mouldings, small windows and five flat pilaster buttresses to the lower part.

The nave has two C12 round headed windows in the north wall and one in the south wall,a C12 south doorway

two C14 windows with square heads.

The chancel has a restored internal string course, a good east window with reticulated tracery and a fine range of a piscina and three sedilia with crocketted heads and pinnacles, also a canopied tomb recess with fine foliage carving, crocketted head and pinnacles.

The fittings also include a C15 octagonal font with a traceried stem and quatrefoil bowl with fleurons and shield, eight late C15 benches in the nave and an early C15 priest brass with the head replaced from a C14 brass. (RCHM I).