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St Peter

St Peter

Brentwood

Essex

BRENTWOOD TQ68NW LITTLE WARLEY HALL LANE 723-1/11/223 Little Warley 21/10/58 Church of St Peter (Formerly Listed as: WARLEY HALL LANE, Little Warley Church of St Peter) I Church.

Architectural Features

2 similar C15 2-centre arched headed windows each of 2 cinquefoiled lights and supermullions with trefoils, between them C15 S doorway with 2-centred arch with double hollow moulded jambs and cavetto moulded label, door old oak boarded, tongue and grooved with cyma mouldings.

Timber-framed and brick projecting door porch in late medieval style with 5 side lights, embattled plates may be original, outer work C19 or early C20.

East nave window has, to the W, a ragstone buttress, to E a shallow projection of ragstone with upper C16 or C17 brickwork enclosing the rood stair.

Chancel: lower than the nave, C16 red brick with rectangular 2-light window with cinquefoiled heads - exterior restored.

N elevation: nave: ragstone, C16 or C17 repair in red brick to W end with supporting buttress.

Chancel: C16 brick wall, blank with contemporary central buttress and 2 C19 heavy buttresses each side.

Parts of medieval pews, mainly handrails rebuilt at W end, mainly box-pews c1600, framed and panelled, dentilled cornices, C17 pulpit (3 sides survive), dentilled cornice with pendants of bobbin work and decorative sunk panels.

TQ6088 : St Peter, Little Warley - Font

Simple font, marble bowl, oolite pedestal in C17 style.

TQ6088 : St Peter, Little Warley - Font

© John Salmon

Chancel arch C16, 2-centred with 2 chamfered orders.

MONUMENTS: in chancel, N side, Sir Denner Strutt and Dorothye his wife 1641, alabaster and marble altar tomb, recumbent effigies, wife behind and above husband, big baldacchino with putti lifting the curtains.

1658, alabaster and marble altar tomb, woman in shroud, semi-reclining.

S wall, brass of Anne Wolley 1592, half figure in ruff.