Stiffleaf's photos with the keyword: great bardfield

motimer arms impaled with those of england and france, probably meant for edmund mortimer, earl of march and philippa plantagenet, daughter of lionel of clarence. this march/clare merger may also be being remembered in the heraldry on the recorder's house in thaxted.

two funerary helmets of the early c17 hang above the tower arch. this one looks at least partly unreal.

two funerary helmets of the early c17 hang above the tower arch. parts look unreal.

three fish in the centre of this quatrefoil are surrounded by foliate fragments, later c14

fragment of late c14 glass with hooded peasant with pick and spade. one of the joys of church visiting is finding what hides amongst pevsner's "mediaeval fragments".

this quatrefoil of late c14 glass centres on two fish biting each other, with the hand holding an orb from a majesty opposite a bearded head, with a lion's mask above and a man with spade and pick below.

c12 pillar piscina , dumped rather unceremoniously in the porch

early c14 coffin and cross slab, which may be indented for a small brass at the top, it's hard to be sure under there.

mid c14 doors and south doorway in the porch

the aisles are lit by an unusual design of straight headed windows of the mid to late c14

late c12 tower, the windows just going lancet

late c12 tower with big c19 clock face

mid c14 south porch from the east

the tower and chancel are late c12, the rest mostly mid to late c14

the late c14 stone rood screen is much restored, the rood figures and the tracery in the side arches dating from bodley's restoration of 1896. unlike stebbing, I have not seen any pre-restoration drawing, so it is difficult to know how much to trust. small fragments of glass fill the eyes of the lion heads that fill some of the cusps, and these are claimed as original. like its earlier brother screen at stebbing, a timber screen was later built over it, causing damage, but unlike stebbing there seem to be none of the replaced original carvings in the church.

the late c14 stone rood screen is much restored, the rood figures and the tracery in the side arches dating from bodley's restoration of 1896. unlike stebbing, I have not seen any pre-restoration drawing, so it is difficult to know how much to trust. small fragments of glass fill the eyes of the lion heads that fill some of the cusps, and these are claimed as original. like its earlier brother screen at stebbing, a timber screen was later built over it, causing damage, but unlike stebbing there seem to be none of the replaced original carvings in the church.

mid c19 glass in the tower window, clayton and bell, c.1855

apart from the remaining late c14 quatrefoils, several lights retain canopy work at their heads.