Description

MALDON

TL8407SE HIGH STREET
574-1/6/116 (North side)
02/10/51 Church of All Saints

GV I

Parish church. C13-C15, remodelled 1728. Restoration 1858 of
south aisle and spire; 1867 restored and reseated; 1877
further restoration.
MATERIALS: mixed flint and rubble with some limestone and
ashlar dressings; north wall of nave rebuilt in red brick with
burnt headers; red-brick east gable; plain tile roofs;
oak-shingled spire.
PLAN: nave with 4-bay south aisle, the north arcade was
removed and the north aisle wall rebuilt 1728. At the west end
of the nave is a triangular tower, with the tower arch facing
north-east. The west wall of the nave runs south-west at an
angle from the north-west angle of the north aisle to meet the
tower. C19 north porch, now vestry. 3-bay chancel with D'Arcy
chapel to south and organ chamber to north, under a triple
gabled roof.
EXTERIOR: probably early C13 three-stage tower incorporating
earlier fabric in the base, partially refaced C19. Restored
lancets to south and north-west faces, area of blocking
beneath latter indicating former doorway. Round-headed slit
windows above and small section of chevron moulding above
south opening. Top stage has pair of restored lancets and a
single lancet to south, all louvred; north-west side has
blocked openings as before. Spire flanked by short spirelets
at angles.
South aisle of c1330. Wide west door of two orders of attached
shafts with moulded capitals bearing a band of carved foliage;
eroded vine scroll to arch. C19 Geometrical-traceried window
above (replaces 5-light intersecting tracery window Grieg
Print 1819). Small south door with eroded foliate capitals.
3-light aisle windows on sill band, intersecting, reticulated
and Geometrical tracery renewed externally except for the
unusual reticulated and panel-traceried eastern window. C19
offset buttresses with figure statues in niches. North wall
has C19 panel-traceried windows.
Chancel: south chapel restored Perpendicular 3-light windows,
two in externally chamfered reveals. C19 priests' door.
Restored 5-light Decorated east window, the lower section of
which has been blocked. C19 chancel east window of four lights
under C19 brick gable. North (organ chamber) recess with stone
jambs and brick Tudor arch surmounted by a square brick

recess. North wall has 3 Perpendicular windows with
ferramenta, the westernmost renewed C19.
INTERIOR: double-chamfered tower arch, the inner order on
renewed corbels; blocked opening above; base of tower in
pudding stone. Nave remodelled 1728 with the rebuilding of the
north side: chancel arch and north chapel arch replaced; flat
nave ceiling with coving. South arcade of four bays; east
respond renewed and arches restored; supported on slender
Purbeck piers of quatrefoil section with fillets, Pontefract
bases and moulded capitals which appear too small for the
arcade above. The western arch is roll-moulded with fillets
and foliate steps; west respond triple attached shafts with
moulded capital bearing band of foliate carving.
South aisle lavishly adorned with two tiers of blind arcading
in Decorated style. Lower tier of cusped ogee-headed arcading
beneath a moulded string; the wide ogee arch with pinnacle
over each door has been renewed. Arcading to south wall
interrupted by the ogee arched door with broach stops to the
crypt; to the east of this, the arcading is set upon a stone
bench lining the wall and has the additional decoration of
diapered spandrels. The string course and head stops are
largely C19. At the east end the arcading is truncated by the
stonework of a vaulted canopy with buttresses of a sedilia or
tomb recess, which has been hacked away. Above the string
course the wall arcading is of alternating wide and narrow
bays, the wide arches containing the windows: moulded jambs
and arches with continuous vine scroll; the narrow bays
between the windows have sub-cusped sub arches with a cusped
vesica above. Ceiled barrel roof incorporating three reused
moulded tie beams. Double-chamfered arch on triple responds
with tall Perpendicular bases to D'Arcy chapel. Mutilated C14
piscina.
Chancel south arcade has Perpendicular quatrefoil piers with
hollow chamfers in angles, polygonal bases and moulded
capitals. C19 parclose screens; remains of rood door above.
Ceiled barrel roof to chancel with cornice and boxed-in tie
beams. North arcade of octagonal piers with double-chamfered
arches and plaque: 'REBUILT 1800'.
MONUMENTS: good C17 wall monuments to chancel east and south
walls: John Jeffrey, d.1657; Mary Scrivener, wife of John
Vernon, d.1647; Sarah Butler, d.1638. On the east wall of the
north chapel: 1602 monument to Thomas Cammocke and his two
wives with kneeling figures in a continuous aedicule.
FITTINGS: Stuart Royal Arms in timber. Rood screen of 1925.
C19 stone font. C20 pulpit with tester.
HISTORY: the south chapel was probably the chantry of Sir
Robert D'Arcy founded c1443.
(RCHME: Essex: 1921-: 170-3; Kelly's Directory: Essex: 1902-:

279; White's Directory: 1863-: 223; Morant P: History and
Antiquities of Essex: 327; Grieg: County Record Office Mint
Binder).

Listing NGR: TL8493507072

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536883

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