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St Leonard and St Mary, Beaumont cum Moze

Beaumont-cum-Moze

Beaumont-cum-Moze the Beaumont-cum-Moze dead bell turret with angel

  Open. In the grounds of Beaumont Hall. Moze lost its church after the Reformation, and so this church serves both villages in a joint parish. This church is open every day, said the notice. There are some fascinating art nouveau memorials in the churchyard to the east. The church was entirely rebuilt in an extraordinary manner towards the end of the 19th Century, though it looked later, very idiosyncratic with a riot of a bell turret with carved angels and the like.

The interior is a delicious, all-of-a-piece late Victorian extravaganza. The rebuilding was bankrolled by the Byng family. Lord Byng of Vimy was a Knight of the Garter, and his standard hangs inside the church. Some excellent early 20th century glass. I liked it a lot, and said so in the visitors book. This is in a benEfice with Tendring and Little Bentley. I visited Little Bentley in 2011 and found it open, so this gave me hopes for Tendring.

Simon Knott, April 2013		                

looking east

Blessed Virgin and Child St Leonard St Peter Light of the World
St Nicholas child brought back to life by St Nicholas sheepdog for St Francis St Francis
suffer the children suffer the children St Leonard and BVM and child crucified
Mother's Union Light of the World war memorial feed my lambs
Field Marshall Viscount Byng of Vimy Crimean War memorial at Vancouver, British Columbia gave in his lifetime L100

angel with wreath lichen angel and scatter roses

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