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Holy Trinity, Hatfield Heath

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. I must say, I was surprised to find this open. A Victorian church by Joseph Clarke, expanded by that man Pritchett and the Chelmsford vandal Chancellor later in the 19th Century. Rather pretty in its way, set in the middle of the common (it seemed too natural to call it a green) in a thicket of chestnut trees. Its virtue is its smallness I suppose. Inside was warm and cosy with an odd little window by AL Wilkinson. Then, I headed on forestwards, and ahead of me on a hill suddenly appeared a dramatic tower, the houses falling away below it, thickets of dark trees beyond. I climbed to a delightful village, its main street lined by grand 18th and 19th Century buildings, and a pub at each end. It reminded me of Dedham. Halfway between the pubs was Hatfield Broad Oak church. Simon Knott, May 2014

 

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