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St Peter, Goldhanger

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. We left Maldon and headed ever further east, north of the Blackwater, to the splendidly named Goldhanger, possibly the only village in Essex named after a James Bond film. Open. This was the first of several churches built of grey ragstone, familiar to me from Kent but which I had never come across in this part of the world before. Presumably there was a quarry nearby. it isn't a material I particularly like, Not least because it weathers in such a gloomy fashion, and it is so difficult to date, a Victorian tower looking as old as a medieval one. Internally, a welcoming yet typical 19th Century rural restoration. Nothing particularly of note - a small 15th Century figure brass, a half decent east window. The church gets a fair number of visitors because the pub next door is a popular expedition spot from Chelmsford, sitting as it does overlooking the Blackwater. Simon Knott, October 2012

 

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