. with thirty two illustrations and two maps . hes 13th cent.; many altera-tions at different times in 15th cent. Notegood specimen of Norman font, of Purbeck marblewith arcaded sides; rood-screen, 15th cent.; well-carved pulpit and sounding board, 1621 ; andsmall but good Flemish brass to Ralph deKnevynton, 1370. Belhus, in this parish, the seatof Sir T. Barrett Lennard, Bart., is a fine Tudorhouse, time of Henry VIII., but refronted andotherwise repaired ; it is surrounded by a park 3 circumference, adorned with old oaks and otherforest timber. The house contains an unbrokenser
. with thirty two illustrations and two maps . hes 13th cent.; many altera-tions at different times in 15th cent. Notegood specimen of Norman font, of Purbeck marblewith arcaded sides; rood-screen, 15th cent.; well-carved pulpit and sounding board, 1621 ; andsmall but good Flemish brass to Ralph deKnevynton, 1370. Belhus, in this parish, the seatof Sir T. Barrett Lennard, Bart., is a fine Tudorhouse, time of Henry VIII., but refronted andotherwise repaired ; it is surrounded by a park 3 circumference, adorned with old oaks and otherforest timber. The house contains an unbrokenseries of family portraits from the time of HenryVIII., including examples of Holbein, Vandyke,and Lely. There are several fine suites of room used to be shown where Queen Elizabethslept the night before her visit to Tilbury fort,but this story is probably apocryphal. Themoated house oi Bretts, in this parish, now a farm-house, is said to have been the seat of Le Bret, oneof the murderers of Archbishop Becket, but this ismore than doubtful. 88. AUDLRY END—BADDOW Ai/fhorp Ruothmg. (Sec Roothing, ^ythcrp.)Baddow, Greed (2 m, from Chelmsford), anattractive suburb of Chelmsford, has a fine butover-restored church (St Marys), which is chieflyremarkable for the excellent early i6th-cent. brick-uork of the upper parts and battlements of theaisles and nave and of the south porch. Thereare also brick arches at the east ends of each aisleinto chancel chapels. The rest of the church,including good western tower, is chiefly 14thcent.; rubble walling with some Roman octagon spire. Tower burdenedwith masses of destructive ivy. Note angle piscinaniche with two openings in chancel ; panelledroof of nave; good early ijth-cent. brass toJane Paschall ; very fine Jacobean pulpit and implements and hoards of bronze havebeen found in this parish. Baddo/r, Little (6 m. from Chelmsford). Thechurch (St Mary), of rubble and Roman material,is interesting. Quo
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