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St John, Langley

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. There are two villages in the parish, Langley Upper Green and Langley Lower Green, and in Upper Green there is a pretty little Baptist chapel in a prominent position among cottages on the side of the green. It has a packed graveyard and an iron fence. You get the impression that most people around these parts were Baptists in the 19th Century. Not far off, sulking on the edge of the village, and famously also locked, is St John, the parish church. Everyone moans about this one being locked. I haven't seen a single photograph of the inside. The setting is lovely, in a farmyard with some 16th Century cottages for company. It sits on a bluff looking out over Hertfordshire to the west.The building is most attractive, built out of pebbles and refaced by the dreaded Ewan Christian in the 1860s. It looks like a toy church, very pretty. I'd have liked to see the Hugh Easton window, but it was not to be. I headed down through Lower Green and then along a zig-zagging lane across the rape fields, to where a little bridge crossed a little stream and a sign said Welcome to Hertfordshire. Simon Knott, May 2013

 

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