St Nicholas

Built mainly in the C14 on the site of a Norman Church but some of the earlier work remains inside.

The weatherboarded vest tower is a fine example of an Essex timber- framed tower, built in the first half of the C14.

On the west side of the tower there is a C17 annex known as the Priests House.

The nave, south chapel and chancel are of the C14

the nave ard chancel roofs are fine C15 work.

The timber of the south porch is C15, mostly rebuilt, but has the original archways, one carved With a dragon and a scallop shell in one spandrel and a beast transfixed by a cross in the other.

The nail studded door is of the C15.

The interior has 2 brasses of priests who served the church at the end of the C15

the beginning of the C16, one of John Kekilpenny end the other of Richard Bladwell.

The front is of the C13, The roof has C20 tiled. (RCHM1)