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Cressing

Essex

C12-C15, extended and restored in C19.

Architectural Features

Mainly of coursed flint rubble containing some brick and tile, S wall of Chancel partly of red brick, with dressings of limestone and clunch, roofed with handmade red plain tiles.

Nave possibly C12 but with no architectural detail ofthat date, on a Saxo-Norman foundation

Chancel early C13, S wall rebuilt in early C16

bell-turret c.1400

In the N wall are 2 early C13 lancet windows of one light, both wholly restored externally.

The roof of the Chancel is of 9 couples framed in 7 cants, boarded between them, with crenellated wallplates moulded to a bowtell in great casement, repeated, C15.

In the N wall are 2 C15 windows, each of 2 cinquefoiled lights with tracery in a 2-centred head with a moulded label

Further W is the C14 N doorway, now enclosed by the N vestry

above the chamfered segmental rear-arch is set a voussoir with chevron ornament, c.1130.

the eastern is of c.1340, of 2 trefoiled ogee lights with quatrefoiled tracery in a 2-centred head, with moulded label

it has crown glass

W of the windows is the late C14 S doorway, the jambs and 2-centred arch wave-moulded in 2 orders, with a moulded label.

In the W wall is a window, all C19 except the C15 plain internal jambs and hollow-chamfered 2-centred rear-arch.

The bell-turret of c.1400 is mounted on 4 posts forming a portal frame, with arched braces of steep 4-centred arcature

The piscina in the S wall of the Chancel is early C16, with chamfered jambs

4-centred head, retaining an earlier octofoil drain asymmetrically placed, probably C14.

In the Chancel is a brass of Dorcas (Bigg), wife of Thomas Musgrave, of Norton, Yorkshire, 1610, seated figure of lady, left hand pointing to figure of infant, with 2 inscription plates

and a floor-slab of William Smith and Dorcas, his wife, mid-C17, inscription worn.

On the S wall of the Chancel is a monument of Anne (Grene), wife of (a) Thomas Newman, and (b) Henry Smith of Cressing Temple, 1607, alabaster and marble tablet with kneeling figures of man in plate-armour, and lady, with 4 shields of arms

panelled base with small figures of a daughter and a swaddled infant.

Fragments of C14 glass reset in the tracery of the N windows of the Nave.

Above the N doorway are the arms of Queen Anne before the Union, on canvas in a carved frame.