St Peter And St Paul

Flint, rubble and quartzite with tile courses, all old walls rendered except W end where original walling visible, some tiles are of post medieval type but some are characteristic Roman tegulae especially low down.

Norman S doorway and one Norman window in N wall of nave (unrestored) of tufa.

Simple 2-celled plan, chancel arch removed by the C15 but reduction in width at chancel/nave junction.

S elevation, W to E: timber-framed porch, 1849-51, in late medieval style, inner post, tie-beam and wall plates possibly old.

The splays have draw bar holes (door hung from W jamb) timber lined and some tile within the tufa courses.

Norman window, narrow, internal splay, dressing restored.

Late C14 3-light window with cinquefoiled ogee lights and tracery in a square head, Upper Greensand dressings, part restored.

Chancel, late C14 2-light window similar to one in nave.

Norman window, restored, similar to one in nave.

N side, W to E: Norman window, dressing in tufa but arch a solid greensand block.

Projecting late C19 chapel, organ chamber and vestry, angle buttresses, windows lancets with trefoiled heads, leaded panes and stained glass, W elevation has 3 lights, N elevation has blind arch, C13 style, containing 2 leaf, boarded door and above it quatrefoil light in roundel, high in gable, trefoiled oculus.

Nave W wall, C15 window, 2 cinquefoiled lights in 4 centred head, moulded label, partly restored, in gable lancet window (possibly C19) and 3 simple oculi above, uncovered in 1850.

The whole nature of the original work seen in the nave W wall looks very early, Saxo-Norman.

The rubble courses where undisturbed are pitched as are the tiles.

The tiles occur in 2 single rows level with the sill and arch springing of the W window.

In the gable is a band of 3 rows of pitched tiles set at half height.

At tie-beam level an elaborate tile pattern crosses the entire wall.

Between the 2, tiles are set to create a series of equilateral triangles.

Roman tegula tiles exist in all the work although later ones have been added.

INTERIOR: W end, early C15 belfry frame of Essex type with lower table frame and belfry rising from centre.

Early C15 timber cornice, moulded, roll in a hollow chamfer, runs round nave and chancel walls.

MONUMENTS AND FITTINGS: 3 bells.

First by Robert Mot, 1588, Second by John Bird, early C15 with inscription 'Johannes Cristi Care Dignare Pro Nobis Orare'.

Pulpit and reading desk built as one, dated 1630, pulpit octagonal and panelled with arabesque and pendant decoration.

Reading desk panelled, carved with pyramids, cabochon and pendants, sheaf of corn and grapes.

Brass in chancel of John Carre, 1570 with figures of man in civilian costume and 2 wives, 3 shields and merchant's mark, indents of groups of children in stone slab of Purbeck marble.

2 other fragments of brasses now set in mahogany panels attached to chancel wall - Rainold Holingworth 1573 with figures of man in armour with wife and shields.

Palimpsest on male figure part of a 'Flemish' canopy and an achievement of arms of Cleves quartering Mark with a quartered scutcheon of Burgundy and Flanders over all.

Palimpsest on lady part of Flemish canopy with figures of St Bartholomew and St Andrew.

Font, octagonal, sides of bowl panelled with quatrefoils enclosing bosses of foliage, moulded base C15, some restoration in plaster.

William Byrd, the Elizabethan - Jacobean renowned, but recusant, musician who lived at Stondon Place was buried in the church in 1623.