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Holy Trinity, Takeley

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 Hatfield Broad Oak I now skirted the forest northwards, at last aimed for home. I was entering the take off zone from Stansted, and I turned on to the main road for Takeley, a scruffy kind of place of motels and shops. A narrow lane led me northwards through woods to the church. Locked, no keyholder notice. A large, gloomy church in a large, gloomy churchyard. The church is a huge ugly thing, although Ewan Christian must take the blame for the rebuilding rather than local vandals Pritchett and Chancellor. The A120 runs along the northern edge of the churchyard, planes take off from Stansted overhead. The churchyard is huge - almost two thirds of Takeley parish is now underneath Stansted Airport, but the people who once lived there and worked the land lie in Takeley churchyard. If they build a second runway, the A120 may be culverted and this church demolished - I can't imagine them bothering to rebuild it elsewhere. But at last I left the noise of the airport behind and headed eastwards on the road that would take me all the way back to Ipswich if I let it, as far as Little Canfield. Simon Knott, May 2014

 

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