Little Oakley
Now converted to a private residence
LITTLE OAKLEY (St. Mary) - The nave is Norman. The west tower was begun about 1500 and is of brick with diagonal buttresses, but was never completed, and does not reach above the nave roof. The west doorway has shields in the spandrels; a hood-mould resting on two lions couchant; fleurons in the jambs; a frieze of small shields above; and a three-light west window. The chancel is of about 1330, and has a three-light window with reticulated tracery, and two inside niches to the left and right, which have very steep canopies with crockets and finials. The Piscina is of the same character. The steep gable of the building is flanked by thin tall decorative buttresses, and the north and south windows have two lights, and are of three different simple kinds of tracery in the Decorative style. On the south side is a priest's door placed in the middle of a buttress, which is widened porch-wise to take it.
