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All Saints, East Hanningfield

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. Leaving Sandon, it was a good ten miles to the next significant church I wanted to visit, so I had selected a few things to entertain me along the way. The first of these was actually a church! This was All Saints, East Hanningfield. Locked with a keyholder notice. This is one of the numerous little Victorian churches rebuilt or planted by the then-Diocese of Rochester in the hamlets around Chelmsford and Brentwood in the later years of the 19th Century. Some are now private houses, some are still in use - this one is. What makes it attractive is that it is entirely in the vernacular Essex rural style, with a little bellcote at the east end. The sign says that the churchwarden will be happy to come and show you around - show you around what exactly?, I wondered, since there really wasn't much to it. I found a Japanese POW memorial in the churchyard, and some good cast iron gravemarkers, presumably from the Maldon foundry, and then headed on. Simon Knott, April 2013

 

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