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St Martin

St Martin

Greater London

Greater London

C13 chancel, C15 arcade, roof to nave and tower, extensively restored and with south porch added by Charles Innes 1850-52

Architectural Features

Built of flint with stone dressings and some tiles to tower quoins and tiled roof

Interior has C15 octagonal arcade piers to 4-bay nave

C15 font, octagonal on a nine stemmed foot with figured panels, five with figures of angels, one with a man with a hood and dagger, one with a Pieta and one with a Crucifixion with the Virgin and StJohn

Beneath the chancel a C13 crypt was discovered in 1974, remodelled in the mid C17 as a burial vault for the Pagets, with arcaded niches for upright coffins

Several monuments including 2 C16 brasses and 3 memorials to the de Burgh family, late C18-early C19 by Bacon Senior and Junior

North window of 1925-6 by Morris and Co is a Burne Jones design of four figures with angels in the tracery. [See BOE London 3: North West p367.] St Martin's Church and the churchyard walls, the gatehouse and wall to the north, and the wall running to Gatehouse Nurseries form a group.