Parish Church of St Edmund King and Martyr

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1. EAST MERSEA CHURCH LANE 5214 Parish Church of St Edmund King and Martyr TM 01 SE 24/1 7.4.65 GV 2. Of C12 or C13 origin. C14 Chancel and nave and tower, C15 north aisle and chapel. C14 west tower of coursed rubble and flint with flushwork dedication crosses and chequered plinth. Four stage angle buttresses on west and octagonal stair turret on north-east. Embattled parapets and 2 stone strings. Belfry windows pairs of cinquefoil lights, rectangular chamferred second stage lights, and 3 cinquefoiled lights at lower west, under a segmental hoodmould. Nave parapetted and embattled with ridged, gabled roof, pegtiled. Two buttresses on south also rood-stair tower. Two Y-tracery windows; each of 6 lights, made of thin oak, C19. South porch of oak on red-brick ground-walls, open 3 centred arcades on turned columns; obtuse pegtiled gabled roof: date circa 1680. Columns Doric. Chancel 2 bays, ridged, gabled and pegtiled. Perpendicular windows, 2 of 3 cinque-foiled lights under elaborate 4 centred heads with labels on head-stops. Priest door, 3 roll moulds, with beaked hood moulding. Red brick angle buttresses at east, the north windows of C14 with acute pairs of trefoil lights under tricusped heads. North aisle perpendicular east window with 2 centred head and label on stops. Crenellated transom in centre light with pointed trefoils left and right flashing for catslide roof which has now been gabled. Angle buttresses. North wall: one window as east 2, late 4 centred cinque-foil 2 light under deep 4-centred hoodmould - partly restored in red brick. Three Y windows as in south. Four, 2 stage tiled offset buttresses and plinth. North door: C15 with reveals hollow, roll, hollow and no label. Leaf survives. Place 4 window as in Place 2. South door: 2 leaves hinged at centre, with sunken quatre-foil on baseplank. Reveals as north door. Both doors square cross-ledged. Tower arch, and 5 bay north arcade and responds, also chancel archus with 4 lobes and intervening hollows: circa 1362-71. Nave and chancel wall-plates, casement under crenellated cresting. Interior, 3 quatrefoil columns between nave and north aisle with C14 arcade. Crenellated timber wall-plate at base of nave roof on north side. Pulpit: mid C17 octagonal pulpit with octagonal sounding canopy (tester) with 6 turned hanging pendants from corners. Two tiers of fusilled fielded panels. Book rest on 3 sawn brackets. No stair - disused. On rendered octagonal base. Font C15 octagonal with blank arcading. Niche in north chancel wall fleuroned sill and head, circa 1400 white brick floors. Horsebox of circa 1700 at west, of north aisle as vestry. Door of stairs-turret iron plated in C16, on earlier leaf with strap-hinges. Settle: circa 1680 in tower base with 8 fielded panels in back, arms scrolled, legs turned at front. Stairs to former rood loft. (RCHM 1).

Listing NGR: TM0509714182

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Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex North East, (1922)

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