The church on Danbury Hill is famous for the three oak effigies which lie in recess there. They are thought to represent members of the St Clere family who owned the manor. There was also St Cleres at Tilbury.

The figures date from the thirteen and early fourteenth centuries. The knights with their feet crossed and resting on lions, a crusader posture, they are carved in different attitudes. The younger looking of
the knights is shown to be in prayer.

In 1779 when workmen uncovering stone slabs in the north aisle to receive the boxy of Mrs Fytche, they found a leaden coffin. When they opened the coffin they found a body of the knight templar represented by the effigy.

The body was embarmed in aromatic spices, partking of the taste of catchup and of the pickle of spanish olives. The body was tolerably perfect and no part of the body had decayed except the face and the throat.

After the report was made concerning the coffin the church door were opened and the parishioners and others having satisfied their curiosity, the shell and wooden coffin were fastened down, then the leaden coffin was again soldered and the whole left, as it was before it was opened.