Post-Medieval Britain in 1985

Abstract

ESSEX: LAYER MARNEY, CHURCH OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN (TL/9285 1740). Restoration of the early 16th-century chun;:h prompted examination of the fabric by D. Andrews, M. Gee and R. Hall for Essex County Council. It has been shown that the windows originally had imitation ashlar jambs in plasterwork. The rubbed-brick hood moulds were covered with pink plaster to make them look like sectional mouldings of terra cotta. Pink plaster was also applied to the plinths below the windows. At a later date, the body of the church was completely rendered with plaster, with the exception of the tower. GREATER LONDON: SOUTHWARK (TQ/32888033). During observation, by G. Dennis, M. Hammerson and D. Seeley for Museum of London, Department of Greater London Archaeology, of contractors' works adjacent to the S.W. corner of St. Olaf House, Tooley Street, the remains of the 18th-century stoneand brick-built hexagonal tower of St. Olaf's Church, which survived to modern street level, were recorded.