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St Andrew, Sandon

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. Open. This is another stunner, a red brick tower attached to a red brick church, beautiful in the sunshine. The sign said 'our historic church is open from 10am every day', but probably because of the lovely weather the opener had already been. A lot of people seem to like this church, though I found the interior a little over restored for my tastes. There is what looks like a fabulous window by one of the Bromsgrove Guild below the tower, but it is unfortunately blocked off by the organ loft, and I couldn't photograph it. One rare medieval survival is a wine glass pulpit. I sat in the sunshine in the churchyard and ate my breakfast. James Bettley in the revised Pevsner says 'the church stands in an immaculate churchyard with a green on the east side, and would present a perfect village scene were it not for the A12 on one side and power lines on the other.' Actually, it's better than that - although this is still suburbia, the old village is isolated by the town planners to still feel like a village, and you can't see the power lines or the A12 from the churchyard. But the noise of that traffic! My goodness! The A12 is in a cutting here, but as I crossed it heading east the roar rose, and it was a relief to escape into tiny, leafy lanes, leaving the noise behind, leaving Chelmsford suburbia at last. Simon Knott, April 2013

 

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