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St Germanus, Faulkbourne

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. Faulkbourne is pronounced foe-b'n, to rhyme with Holborn (pronounced hoe-b'n). In the grounds of Faulkbourne Hall, one of the most spectacular 15th century brick mansions in England. The modern road up to the church with its locked road gate and open side gate gave me hope that the church might be open, but it wasn't. Again, a simple Essex church but with two late medieval red brick porches, one of them tiny, and a brick window of the same date. They were probably added when the Hall was built, perhaps to improve the view, or simply because there were building materials spare to improve the church. Don't know why it wasn't open, as nobody could conceivably get a van up to the church, or even be here unnoticed. And then it was downhill a mile or so into Witham. Simon Knott, April 2014

 

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