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St Andrew, Weeley

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. Weeley (where do they get these Essex placenames from?) is a big, busy village, but the church is a mile south of it out in the fields, a fine setting for a red brick church high on a ridge overlooking the valley. I huffed and puffed up to the church. Locked. Close up, this is an ugly church. It was entirely rebuilt apart from the 16th century red brick tower in the 1880s by a minor architect called Robins who seems not to have even visited the site - it is an urban church, with wide ugly windows and near-municipal brickwork. I wasn't bothered about not getting inside. I ate my sandwiches in the porch looking out over the valley, and then high-tailed it northwards back through the village along increasingly hilly roads to Tendring. Simon Knott, April 2013

 

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