St Mary's Prittlewell

Images of the Interior of the Church
To see a larger version with notes, click on the picture

The plan opposite shows the direction of a walk round the church
looking at some detail on the way.
In through the south porch. Font on left.
Along the cross aisle and left to the tower.
Along the nave to the chancel and high altar.
Through the organ screen to Jesus chapel. Back along the south aisle.

Tudor carved oak door	Holy water Stoup	Early sixteenth century font
Niche in pillar near font	Tower ringing room	Tower ringing room
Bell chamber	Church clock	Red Cross flag
The Nave	Detail of Mellitus window	Coffer panel
Nave looking West	Carved Litany Desk	Mural Tablet
Mayoral Stall	Lectern	Remains of 7th century doorway viewed from interior of chancel
Detail of Chancel roof	High altar & sanctuary	Annunciation Banner
Mothers' Union Banner	The Jesus Chapel	Part of 16th century window
St. Cedd banner	Piscina	Virgin and Child statue
King Alfred window	Chapel door	in Chapel above porch
A walk round outside the Church click on the pictures
15th century tower	West front of church	Lych gate
South porch	View from North-East	Remains of Saxon door
View from tower roof	View from tower roof	Plan of Saint Mary's

One of St Mary's two oak coffer panels is shown above. Both were examined, in December 2009, by the Dendrochronological Laboratory at Oxford, using ring sequences. These were subsequently matched against reference chronology sequences. The one shown above proved very difficult to date, with very narrow rings and none that could be identified as the 'start' (ie: sapwood at the outer margin of the original tree). The most that could be said about this one is that it seems likely that the trees used were felled in the early- to mid- fourteenth century. But the other panel, showing entwined dragon heads, could be dated to the period AD 1149 - 1318, and the wood shown to have come from the Baltic region.