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St Mary, Sheering

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. I headed south towards the Sheerings. Lower Sheering is big suburban area, actually the eastern half of the Hertfordshire town of Sawbridgeworth. A triumph of tradition over common sense meant that it was not drawn into the other county in 1974. Upper Sheering, where the church is, is a good two miles off on the other side of the M11, which I crossed again with some relief. But Upper Sheering is a fairly desperate, suburban kind of place, with traffic thundering through it. The church is down a little lane, not unattractive, but in this awful benefice of locked churches, so very unusual in the northern half of Essex, I already knew that I would find it locked. This was the great annoyance of the day. I had hoped against reason I might get inside, as it not only has medieval glass, it has a window by John Hayward. But it is not to be. The tower is interesting, with two clocks, one reading 'Work and Pray' the other 'The Day is Yours'. A huge, ridiculously ugly north aisle by local hooligan George Pritchett. In the end, it was a relief to leave Sheering behind. I was headed for the Forest now. Simon Knott, May 2014

 

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