ST JAMES. Chancel and nave of the C14 with C19 bellcote. The Royal Commission notes in the walls the use of C14 yellow bricks apart from Roman bricks. The variety of colour in the walls is altogether remarkable: septaria, that is a brown stone, flint, pebble, and the bricks. C14 windows, those of the nave with ogee detail, those of the chancel with a very peculiar tracery pattern. - PLATE. Cup of 1565 with two bands of ornament. - BRASS. To a Lady and Children, c. 1520.
DENGIE. A Saxon village halfway between the Blackwater and Crouch and not far from the sea, it is a pleasant little place that has forgotten to grow up. There are Roman bricks in the church, and in the bell-turret are carvings of three ancient leopards. On a 16th century brass is a quaint group of children with their mother. There is a cup engraved in Shakespeare’s day, and the stone reredos was carved by Edward Warmington, 44 years rector here until our own time.
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