. with thirty two illustrations and two maps . roportion of Roman brick in its walls,but no part of the present fabric appears to beearlier than 14th cent. The chancel has a fineI5th-cent. roof. Note the remarkable timberarch across the centre of the chancel, withcarved spandrils ; rood-loft stairs with woodennewel ; replaced Purbeck marble altar slab ; finelate 15th-cent. font; and two Jacobeanchests. Much restoration was accomplished in1883 and 1891. At the latter date the churchwas seriously damaged and its history falsified byraising the chancel level and elevating the altar onman
. with thirty two illustrations and two maps . roportion of Roman brick in its walls,but no part of the present fabric appears to beearlier than 14th cent. The chancel has a fineI5th-cent. roof. Note the remarkable timberarch across the centre of the chancel, withcarved spandrils ; rood-loft stairs with woodennewel ; replaced Purbeck marble altar slab ; finelate 15th-cent. font; and two Jacobeanchests. Much restoration was accomplished in1883 and 1891. At the latter date the churchwas seriously damaged and its history falsified byraising the chancel level and elevating the altar onmany steps after a fashion unknown in the14th cent. The east window is almost entirelyobscured by a large ugly reredos composed ofpainted deal and paper to imitate is another like mean erection at the eastend of the south aisle. St Mary-at-the-Walls in Church St. North v asnearly demolished during the siege of 1648 ; it wasrebuilt in 1714, with the exception of the lowerpart of the tower (15th cent.), and again in 1871. 132 * *iss5;.;^v \. COLCHISTER St Peters church on North Hill has a tall17th-cent, brick tower. The body of thechurch has traces of 15 th-cent. work. Thefine late I3th-cent. scroll hinges on the disusedsouth door arc the most notable detail of thechurch ; the} are reported to be the work ofThomas de Leighton, the most beautiful iron-worker of his day; he was the artificer of QueenEleanors grille in Westminster Abbey. Thereis a crypt below the sacristy ; a mural tableterected in 1843, to various Marian martyrs of thetime and district burnt between 1555 and 1558;and several brasses, the oldest of which is an effigyof John Sayre (1510), alderman, in his robes. All Saints, High Street, has I5th-cent. flinttower with somewhat earlier nave, south aisle andchancel restored in 1861. St James, at the top of East Hill, was sothoroughly restored and partly rebuilt in 1871that little of interest remains ; much Romanbrick ; brasses to Alderman Maynard, aldermana
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