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St Lawrence, Bradfield

Click on the 'play' symbol in the second image to see all my photographs of this church as a slide show, then click on any image in the slideshow to see it large in a new page. Alternatively, if you don't have flash enabled, you can go straight to the set for this church on flickr. Open, like most churches along the Essex/Suffolk border.This church is always open in daylight hours.says the notice. The best church of the day. A big cruciform church with a western tower, looking ruggedly Norman but probably rebuilt in the 14th century. You enter through a modern extension, very reminiscent of Whittlesford in Cambridgeshire. The church is full of light and full of delights, excellent windows by Rosemary Rutherford, Edward Burne-Jones and John Hardman. Full of interest, and in a joint parish with Mistley, which is also open every day, of course. I had to come back a few days later because I messed up the exteriors, thinking I had autofocus locked on when I hadn't, but on this occasion I pumped up my rapidly deflating rear tyre and limped back to Manningtree station, past the towers of John Nash's lost Mistley church, and was home in time for tea. Simon Knott, April 2013

 

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