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St Peter ad Vincula, Coggeshall

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. The surprise of Coggeshall, a small and attractive town - imagine Great Bardfield or Wethersfield if they were much bigger, and ordinary people lived in them. In the heart of town, just off the high street is the parish church. Open. The use of the dedication, 'St Peter in Chains', suggests a High Church enthusiasm, and that is absolutely right. This is a big, super church, my favourite big church in Essex so far after Thaxted. Full of light, full of colour. An aesthetic pleasure, although the Leonard Evetts windows I had looked forward to seeing were almost impossible to photograph, as they are in the north aisle and the building was so very full of light. Simon Knott, October 2012

 

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