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All Saints

Stanway

Essex

TL 92 SE STANWAY MALDON ROAD 986/12/11 Church of All Saints II* Ruined church.

Architectural Features

Late C13, much rebuilt probably following the fall of a tower in the early C15 when a north aisle was also built and with north porch of c1605.

West tower of three stages has late C13 flint

stone below the tower arch with chequered and moulded plinth, above early C15 narrow bricks laid in single stretcher courses banded with courses of pebble flints and embattled parapet.

Interior has early C15 domical brick vault.

Early C15 north aisle arcade with quatrefoil piers with hollows between the foils and with round moulded capitals and two-centred arches.

Chancel arch blocked with early C17 brick window.

Early C17 brick infilling, including north doorway with four-centred arch and dripmoulding.

Circa 1605 English bond brick north porch has stepped gable with blank panel and four-centred arch and colonnettes.