Essex ecclesiastical - II
In the Shell County Guide for Essex, John Betjeman waxed lyrical about the county's many brick-towered churches - "Bonfire red!" he described them. Here's an intriguing example, St. Peter and Paul, at St. Osyth. Compared with other bonfire-red towers, such as at Ingatestone and Rochford, this one is fairly squat. Perhaps this was dictated by the village's marshy location. There is ample evidence that the church needed further buttressing in the subsequent years.
April 2014
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film
Essex ecclesiastical - II
In the Shell County Guide for Essex, John Betjeman waxed lyrical about the county's many brick-towered churches - "Bonfire red!" he described them. Here's an intriguing example, St. Peter and Paul, at St. Osyth. Compared with other bonfire-red towers, such as at Ingatestone and Rochford, this one is fairly squat. Perhaps this was dictated by the village's marshy location. There is ample evidence that the church needed further buttressing in the subsequent years.
April 2014
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film