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St Michael, Leaden Roding

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. From White Roding I cycled on the Bishops Stortford to Chelmsford road, which wasn't too bad, certainly nothing like the hell of the Harlow road, a short distance to Leaden Roding, where I found the church locked with a keyholder notice, just as White Roding had been, most unusually for this part of Essex where virtually every church is open every day. Not unattractive, but spoiled by its proximity to the road and an absurd dense avenue of yew trees up to the south porch in an otherwise stark and open churchyard. I didn't ring for the key, because the perfectly clear east and west windows gave a good view of the inside, of which there seemed little to excite, although I liked the panels of glass in the east window, and the church is small enough to photograph them through the west window. A little way further along the road led me to Margaret Roding. Simon Knott, April 2014

 

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