Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536691

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)