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St Andrew, Wormingford

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. The village is large and ordinary, but as at Boxted the church is in a hamlet a mile or so off, and what an idyllic spot it is! The church is beautiful, flint and red brick and pink septaria glowing in the afternoon sun, surrounded by Horse chestnuts and holly trees. It is utterly delightful, and immediately joined my list of churchyards I'd be prepared to be buried in. The artist John Nash is against the western hedge, the Vale dropping away steeply beyond. Inevitably, the interior is an anti-climax, a thorough-going restoration of the 1890s with nothing old surviving (though Pevsner reports a brass which I couldn't find*) but I still liked it a great deal indeed. A lovely setting. This is Ronald Blythe's church, by the way. His weekly column in the Church Times is called 'The Word from Wormingford'. *I've since learned it is under the tower. Simon Knott, October 2012

 

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