St. Mary Magdalene, Thorrington
THORRINGTON (St. Mary Magdalene) has a fine East Anglian west tower, which is especially interesting because it is dated. The floor of the tower has a brass with an inscription in memory of John Deth (1477) and Margery, his wife (1483) which reads “specialis benefactor istius ecclesie et campanile ejusdem”. The tower is of knapped flints, and has diagonal buttresses, a three-light west window, and two-light bell-openings. The battlements, with flushwork panels, and are in the style of Brightlingsea tower, but a little more modest. The church is of pebbles, and the north aisle looks like a vertical cobbled pavement. The south porch is of the 14th. century with quoins of tiles on the Norman pattern of using Roman bricks, but the north aisle (1866) is ornate and rather lifeless.
The Font is octagonal Perpendicular on a stem with buttresses, and tracery panels on the bowl depicting leaves and shields. And there is a brass in memory of John Clare (1564), and his family.