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All Saints, Hutton

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. Although Hutton makes up a good quarter of the Brentwood urban area, the church is, like that of Shenfield, a rural church, just outside the town on the Hutton Hall estate. It was rebuilt by the great George Street in the 1860s, and it is as if he had heard an Essex church described to him, but had never actually seen one. It's not quite right, but it is rather good. Unfortunately, the custodians are aggressively security conscious - the first welcome was a big sign saying DO NOT LEAVE VALUABLES IN YOUR CAR and THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF BREAK INS. The lady who answered my phone call was pleasant enough, but obviously had a list of prepared questions about who I was and why I wanted to see inside. She took 20 minutes to come, and when she did she was not alone but had brought a rather assertive colleague with her. However, we all soon got on like a house on fire, and in the end it was difficut to get away from them. They were obviously so proud of their church and pleased that anyone wanted to see it. And it is splendid inside. Street had it furnished in the style of All Saints Margaret Street with murals and medieval-style woodwork, and the glass by Clayton & Bell is of the highest quality. I liked it a lot and it seemed a great shame that more people were not able to see it. Simon Knott, August 2013

 

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