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St Mary, Runwell

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. A small church on the edge of the town of Wickford. Wickford church is open every day, but Runwell is locked, no keyholder notice. A rugged, ragstone tower, the church itself is rebuilt and quite small beside the great tower. Oddly, the outer gates were hooked back, but the church door was locked. The same is true on other photographs I have seen where the photographer has said that the church was locked. Obviously a different benefice to Wickford, then, and it was tempting to make a joke about the irony of it being the church of a parish called Runwell, when it obviously isn't. But I resisted, you'll be pleased to know. And then out onto the great ridge which runs parallel to the Thames estuary. Simon Knott, August 2013

 

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