All Saints

Timber-framed belfry tower c1400 within west end of nave and long C16 timber-framed porch to south door.

EXTERIOR: the nave, south wall, west to east blocked lancet window, C13 doorway of clunch with two centred arch with dog tooth ornament on the soffit and deep mouldings - outer hood mould renewed in oolite together with lower part of jambs with bases, C19 boarded door.

C16 timber-framed porch to door, two bays deep with ten upper lights, lower plank and muntin construction below rail and in gable, restored 1887.

Timber-framing altered, probably when late medieval traceried windows inserted into older openings.

Date of tower uncertain but consistent use of curved braces and lack of side lapped joints in favour of mortice and tenons implies a date after the C13.

Roof relates to tower and probably both roughly contemporary and within the C14.

Timber porch has mouldings of perpendicular form, cymas and hollows of mullions typical of early-mid-C16.

This material is normally found in the east of Essex and in walls not later in date than the Norman period, i.e.pre-1200.

INTERIOR of church all C19 except wooden rood figures of Christ, the Virgin and St John, C19 imports, probably German C16.

Font of upper greensand with mica flecks, octagonal, faces have quatrefoils in circles with central leaf and fleuron motifs.

One panel with a 'green man'.

Pedestal with panelled tracery,early Perpendicular perhaps contemporary with the tower and the nave roof of the C14.