LAYERS MARNEY WICK ROAD 1. 5214 Church of St Mary the Virgin TL 91 NW 16/32 7.4.65 I 2. Largely rebuilt early C16, in red brick. West tower has diapering in flared headers, diagonal stone dressed buttresses, embattled parapets and polygonal staircase tower. West window has 4 centred head and intersecting tracery. Embattled south aisle, south porch and south chancel porch. Windows are all 4 centred heads in brick. East window to Church in stone, of 5 trefoiled ogee and transomed lights with vertical tracery in a four centred head. East gable has crow stepped parapet. Nave has north arcade 2 bays with 4 centred arches of 3 moulded orders, labels and shield stop. Upper door to rood loft remains with 4 centred head. At west end of north aisle is a priests chamber, with remains of fireplace and octagonal chimney stack. South porch to nave has a moulded and 4 centred outer arch of brick, with double chamfered responds, having moulded capitals and bases. Niche with coved soffit over. Side walls have windows of 3 transomed and 4 centred lights with moulded jowls and label. Porch roof in 5 cants. Original south door of nailed cross boards. Nave roof is of 7 cants with 4 commons per bay, the principal frames are heavily moulded. Heavy tie beams. Chancel roof in 7 cants, with inclined ashlars, side purlins above the common collars and compassed wind braces that rise to apexes of principal rafters. Many good internal features. C15 rood screen with ogee arches. C14. alabaster tomb with effigy in armour, with bascinet. Tomb to Henry Lord Marney 1523, with recumbent effigy. North wall of nave, has large painted figure of St Christopher bearing Christ and holding a ragged staff. Landscape background, presumed early Cl6. (RCHM 1). Listing NGR: TL9282417418