82 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
each alternate bay having an attached shaft which is carried up past the
triforium and clerestory to the ceiling, breaking in a very pleasing way the.
otherwise stern massiveness of the arcade. Two of the pillars have
flutings of zig-zag or chevron pattern, and two have spiral groovings and
it is suggested that these were filled, or intended to be filled, with some
burnished metal like latyn. Most of the arches in both nave and triforium
are enriched with the characteristic Norman chevron and billet moulding.
The 14th century alteration of the western bays, in both north and south
arcades, will be obvious, for pointed arches have been substituted for
the original semi-circular ones. The eastern arch of the chancel formed
the western arch of the central tower and this can be better seen from an
outside inspection. The small screen in the north aisle is of 15th century
date, the middle bay being part of another and earlier screen. At the
east end of the south aisle, worked into the wall, are fragments of carved
stone discovered under the floor of the chancel during the restoration of
1859-1860, probably from a reredos and of early 14th century work-
manship. The west doorways both belong to the 14th century, the outer
one being drastically restored in 1853.
The principal monument is that to Sir Edward Denny and Dame
Margaret, his wife, with their recumbent effigies, with underneath the
effigies of six sons and four daughters kneeling. A long inscription tells
us that he died "xii. Feby. 1599 in about the 52nd yere of his age." His
wife, Dame Margaret, although represented on the tomb, was not buried
here, but in Bishop Stortford church, where she died in 1648, aged 88, and
the reason is given in her will which says her "desire was to be interr'd
at Waltham by my deere husband," but having had the care and charge
of seven fatherless children of her grandson cast upon her by reason of the
rebellion in Ireland, she directed "that cost be spared and my body be
buried in Stortford Chauncell." By the side of this tomb is the alabaster
effigy of Lady Elizabeth Greville, formerly recumbent under a canopy
supported by two marble pillars. She was first married to Henry Denny,
son of Sir Anthony Denny, and afterwards to Sir Edward Greville. Her
father was Lord John Grey, brother of the Duke of Suffolk, father of
Lady Jane Grey ; she was therefore cousin to the unfortunate Nine Days'
Queen. On my right will be seen the black and white marble tomb of
Capt. Robert Smith, with long Latin inscription recording his death in
1698, and upon the flat top of this a marble bust in Roman costume of
Henry Wollaston, many years J.P., who was buried at the south end of his
own pew 17 Feb. 1669-1670. He married in 1617 Ursula Foxe, grand-
daughter of John Foxe, the martyrologist. Also on the tomb is a fragment
of touch with moulded edge, and carved mask with mouth pierced, pro-
bably for a water spout, of early 16th century date, but which has been
asserted to have formed a portion of the tomb of Harold, but if this frag-
ment is actually from the founders' tomb, the carving upon it must have
been executed at some subsequent date.
There is no ancient stained glass ; the east window was designed by
Mr., afterwards Sir, Edward Burne Jones. The ceiling was painted by
Sir E. J. Poynter, P.R.A., when a young man ; the central figures repre-
senting the signs of the Zodiac. The font is of Purbeck marble and dates
from about 1200 ; it has an octagonal bowl, which has probably been recut.