)ulded ribs 

 mtury work ; 



The windows of the south aisle, with their tracery, 

 are of modern stonework, but the internal jambs may 

 be of 14th-century date. The south doorway is 

 chiefly of early 14th-century date ; the pointed arch 

 is f three moulded orders; the moulded jambs 

 appear to be earlier, and may be 1 3 th-century «*» • 

 reset. The roofs of both aisles have 1 

 and carved bosses, and are of 15 th- 

 the spaces between the ribs are plastered. The trusses 

 of the south aisle roof rest on carved stone corbels. 

 To the east of the south doorway, internally, is a 

 recess with cioquefoiled head and moulded jambs. 



The stonework of the south porch is all modern, 

 but it retains its 15th-century wooden roof. 



The tower is of three stages without buttresses, 

 and has an embattled parapet and a slender octagonal 

 ' spire, lead covered, the lead ribs forming a lozenge- 

 shaped diaper pattern. On the south side is a pro- 

 jecting stair turret of brick, finished with an embattled 

 parapet below the belfry stage ; it was probably built 

 in the (6th century. The tower arch is of two 

 splayed continuous orders of 14th-century date ; the 

 stonework of the jambs has been renewed. The 

 14th-century west door is of two splayed continuous 

 orders, with a moulded label, and has been repaired ; 

 the 15th-century window above has three cinque- 

 foiled lights under a four-centred arch. 



The second stage of the tower has on the north 

 and the south face a single pointed light; the belfry 

 stage has on each face a two-light window of the 

 1 5th century, repaired with cement. 



The octagonal font dates from about 1400, and 

 has been repaired ; on each side of the basin is a 

 quatrefoil within a square panel ; on the stem are 

 tracer ied panels. 



The 1 ;th-century oak rood screen consists of three 

 wide bays with pointed arches in the upper part ; 

 these are subdivided and the heads traceried ; the 

 lower close panels are also traceried. 



The south door is panelled, the upper parts being 

 traceried ; it has been repaired. It retains its old 

 ironwork, and is probably of late 14th-century date. 

 -Near it is an oak poor-box dating from about 1600. 

 Under the tower is a large oak chest with five locks, 

 probably of the 1 7th century, and incorporated with 

 some of the seating are some early 16th-century 

 bench ends and other woodwork. The oak pulpit is 

 carved and panelled, and is inscribed ' Christe is all 



BRAUGHING HUNDRED sawbridgeworth 



monument to Sir William HewctV J* ^ *J» 

 his wife, and under the tower is a monument to 

 Thomas Hewett, who died in 1662. 



In the nave is a slab Purheck "-J "™J 

 incised figure, apparently of a nun, probably ol early 

 ,4,h-cenfury date, but the marginal inscription .» 

 illegible. Another slab in the nave bears the much- 

 worn marginal inscription 'Hie jacet Thoma, de 

 Aungerville quondam Rector Ecclesie de Sabrucha- 



worth, Non. Dec. 1333.' ... - K , 



In the south aisle is a stone slab with an Ulegiwe 

 inscription of the 14th century. 



On the chancel floor is a brass of Geoffrey Jocelyn, 

 1470, with figures of himself and his two wives ; 

 part of the inscription is gone. 



In the nave is a slab with indents of a man, his 

 two wives and four shields, the remaining shield 

 bears the arms of Chauncy ; another slab with brasses 

 of twelve sons and six daughters with arms quarterly 

 1 and 4, on a chief a lion passant, 2 and 3 a lion 

 rampant debruised by a bend. 



On the floor of the south chapel are figures of a 

 knight and a lady, with the arms of France and 

 England quartered. The figures are said to be John 

 Leventhorpe and his wife, about 1433 ; there is no 

 inscription. In the south aisle is a figure of a lady 

 in a mantle ; three shields and arms of Leventhorpe. 

 There is an indent of a man and another shield, but 

 no inscription, said to represent Thomas Lei 

 thorpe, who died in 

 brass with figures of a : 

 Elizabethan dress, and 



in all. 1632. 



At the north-east corns 

 with the recumbent effig 

 and his wife Phyllis ; he 



wife is dressed in a long robe ; the figures are much 

 defaced. On the same wall is a large classical monu- 

 ment, with the figure of George Viscount Hewett, 

 who died 1689. On the south wall of the chancel 

 is a late 15th-century marble tomb without an 

 inscription ; the lower part has traceried panels with 

 shields from which the brasses have been taken - 

 above is a richly carved and traceried canopy sup- 

 ported on engaged shafts carved with a lozenge- 

 shaped surface ornament. At the back, beneath the 

 canopy, are indents of brasses of a man, his two 

 wives and his children. In the south chapel is a 

 : monument, with recumbent effigies of 

 , , who died 1625, and his wife ; 

 they lie under a semicircular canopy with sculptured 

 ; "" "~ 1 the spandrels, and flanked by Corinthian 



large r 



Sir John Leventhor 



figure; 



527, and his wife Jo; 

 an in armour and a lady in 

 ascription to Edward Leven- 

 thorpe, died 1551, and his wife Elizabeth. 



In the north aisle are brasses of two shields and an 

 inscription to William Chauncy, probably of the 

 1 5 th century. 



Beneath the tower is the figure of Mary wife of 

 Edward Leventhorpe, died in 1 566, with inscription ; 

 also of a man and a woman in shrouds, with a shield 

 of France and England, probably to John Leven- 

 thorpe, who died in 1484. In the south aisle is the 

 indent of a woman of 15th-century date. Other 

 brasses belonging to Saw bridge worth Church are now 

 in the museum of Saffron Walden. 



There are nine bells : the treble and second by 



of the chancel is a tomb John Taylor, 1872 ; the third by Thomas Lester, 



es of John Jocelyn, 1525, 1749 • the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh recast by 



' - plate armour and his Taylor, 1870 ; the tenor by John Briant, 1795 ; a 



small bell not in the peah 1664. 



The communion plate consists of modern chalice, 

 paten and flagon. 



The registers of baptisms, marriages and burials 

 begin in 1558. 



The church of ST. JAMES, HIGH WYCH, is a 

 building of flint and stone in 13th-century style, 

 consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, 

 south porch and south-west bell-turret. 



A priest is mentioned among 

 JDFOJTSOm Geoffrey de Mandeville's tenants in 

 1086," showing that the church was 

 appurtenant to the manor. The tithes were given 

 by Geoffrey de Mandeviile to the church of St. Mary 

 of Hurley, co. Berks., endowed by him at the end 

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