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St Peter and St Paul, West Mersea

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 Colchester I cycled eleven miles and across the Strood causeway onto Mersea Island. The town is West Mersea, a typical Essex seaside town. Open. Very attractive, and quite different to its neighbour, with lots of red brick and flint. Inside is very urban, entirely renewed, but with a number of medieval survivals. This was obvious very High Church in its day, and still feels well-used and looked after. The altar rails from Semer workhouse now serve as a kind of chancel screen. Pleasant though not exciting. Simon Knott, August 2013

 

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