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Berners Roding Church (dedication unknown but believed to be All Saints) is situated within the small hamlet of Berners Roding approximately 6 miles NE of Chipping Ongar. The church is adjacent to Berners Hall and surrounded by arable fields to be east and north, Berners Hall farm to the west and is accessed via a narrow track leading from the road to the south.
Whilst the exact origins of the church are unknown, elements of the building appear to date from the 14th century. The nave and chancel are of an unknown date but the east and west walls are believed to be 16th century. The church once had a weather-boarded belfry that housed a single bell dated 1594 (cast by John Dyer – bell foundry Chelmsford). A survey of the church by Nikolaus Pevsner for his book “The Buildings of England – Essex” published in 1954 shows the belfry was present and it was therefore removed after this date. The whereabouts of the bell is unknown.
The church was deconsecrated in 1985 and is now in a very sorry state.
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CWGC grave marker
SERGEANT TREVOR HILLIER
Service Number: 972195
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 83 Sqdn.
Died 26 November 1943, aged 24
RODE HILL (CHRIST CHURCH) CHURCHYARD
Son of Ralph and Winifred Hillier, of Rode; husband of Verna Elizabeth Hillier.
During 1943, No. 83 Squadron, RAF was part of No. 8 (Pathfinder Force) Group at RAF Wyton (Huntingdonshire, now Cambridgeshire), operating as a marker unit for the main force of Bomber Command, flying the Avro Lancaster: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._83_Squadron_RAF
The Royal Air Force Commands website contains more information on the circumstances of Sgt Hillier’s death: www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=97281
Sgt Hillier was Air Bomber in Lancaster III JA686 when it “exploded at its dispersal on Wyton airfield after an electrical fault ignited the photo flash” on 26th November 1943. The casualties were: Flying Officer Jonah Alderson-Hiller, RAFVR (Runnymede Memorial), Leading Aircraftsman Frederick John Bailey, RAFVR (Erith (Brook Street) Cemetery), Leading Aircraftsman John Henry Brundell, RAFVR (Gainsborough General Cemetery), Sergeant Douglas Hugh Craigie, RAFVR, Wireless Op (Edinburgh (Piershill) Cemetery), Sgt Hillier, Warrant Officer Maurice Joseph Murphy, RNZAF (Runnymede Memorial), Corporal Marion White McDowell, WAAF (Irvine Old Parish Churchyard), and Leading Aircraftsman John Thomas Nicholas, RAFVR (Tipton Cemetery).
Few day back.....
onSunday 31st May 2009...
there was a review of my book "Rode to Heaven"- LADAKH ...
published in Mail Today..
All Saints, High Roding, Essex
A mile distant from its village, at the end of a long lane with only a farm for company. The church was locked with a keyholder notice, two keyholders. A medium sized late medieval church with no tower. The churchyard was bowling-green smooth. There didn't seem much of interest through the largely clear windows. A large graveyard, though, for the village it serves is the largest in the area, so plenty of people sleeping the sleep of the just in the churchyard. Oddly, several of the graves have 1930s ceramic floral displays under glass domes - strange to think of them sitting here for 80 years. I cycled on, up through the village. I hadn't realised how high I was, but as I turned back towards the forest I descended steeply for several miles to the very pretty village of Great Canfield with its church.
De rode kater hangt als gevelsteen in de Haddingestraat op nr 30. De dochter van Jan Kruis (Jan, Jans en de kinderen) heeft hier gewoond vandaar het jaartal.
After the river came over the other day it was a squelchy walk to get here today. Three shot panorama.
Southern Pacific 4449 pulling an excursion train on October 10th, 2009. The train came in from Minneapolis, MN on a different excursion and many of those passengers got off to go into Winona for a few hours. I got on for a two hour excursion to La Crescent, MN where there was a wye for the train to turn around for the return trip of the Minneapolis excursion. I rode in dome car #53.
RODE NT1 - A great microphone for any home studio looking to do professional quality sound recordings.
This one is set up in our lounge room "studio".
Bit more rain and we'll be flooded like the other year.
Couldn't get past the other side of the Charlie Moules without my wellies this morning.
St Martin, White Roding, Essex
Locked with a keyholder notice. Pleasantly set up a lane with its east window facing the approach. Stunningly old Saxon south doorway. The door looks old too, but it can't be that old, can it? Two phone numbers for the key, but it was already 3 o'clock and I wanted to get in a few more churches yet, so I didn't ring, and neither did I for the next two, which also had keyholder notices with phone numbers. I chatted briefly to an old lady tending a spectacular bonfire in the corner of the churchyard. She must have been a girl guide as a youngster.
Berners Roding, Essex
Abandoned and derelict church on the remote Berners Hall estate.
In 1911, my great-great-aunt Julia Mortlock was a cook at Berners Hall. By then, it was inhabited by James, Charles and Caroline Glasse, two brothers and a sister from Morwenstowe in Cornwall. There was only one other servant. By 1919, the farm had been sold to the Co-op, who still own it today. I believe the grounds have a famous carp lake.
St Michael, Leaden Roden, Essex
From White Roding I cycled on the Bishops Stortford to Chelmsford road, which wasn't too bad, certainly nothing like the hell of the Harlow road, a short distance to Leaden Roding, where I found the church locked with a keyholder notice (two numbers). Not unattractive, but spoiled by its proximity to the road and an absurd dense avenue of yew trees up to the south porch in an otherwise stark and open churchyard. perfectly clear east and west windows giving a view of the inside, of which there seemed little to excite, although I liked the panels of glass in the east window, and the church is small enough to photograph them through the west window. A little way further along the road led me to Margaret Roding.
All Saints, High Roding, Essex
A mile distant from its village, at the end of a long lane with only a farm for company. The church was locked with a keyholder notice, two keyholders. A medium sized late medieval church with no tower. The churchyard was bowling-green smooth. There didn't seem much of interest through the largely clear windows. A large graveyard, though, for the village it serves is the largest in the area, so plenty of people sleeping the sleep of the just in the churchyard. Oddly, several of the graves have 1930s ceramic floral displays under glass domes - strange to think of them sitting here for 80 years. I cycled on, up through the village. I hadn't realised how high I was, but as I turned back towards the forest I descended steeply for several miles to the very pretty village of Great Canfield with its church.
St Botolph, Beauchamp Roding, Essex
Open. This is a dramatic sight about a quarter of a mile above the Dunmow to Ongar road. A sandy track climbs up to it. Kentish ragstone and crumbling cement make it seem a very dour place - it is obviously still in use and loved, but in dreadful condition with missing roof tiles and a few broken panes. The setting makes it seem much more remote than it actually is.
Inside is like a time capsule of the 1870s, everything just as it was. The church is obviously open 24 hours a day. To the south of the church is an enormous badgers sett - the dead aren't going to get much rest around there.
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Berners Roding Church (dedication unknown but believed to be All Saints) is situated within the small hamlet of Berners Roding approximately 6 miles NE of Chipping Ongar. The church is adjacent to Berners Hall and surrounded by arable fields to be east and north, Berners Hall farm to the west and is accessed via a narrow track leading from the road to the south.
Whilst the exact origins of the church are unknown, elements of the building appear to date from the 14th century. The nave and chancel are of an unknown date but the east and west walls are believed to be 16th century. The church once had a weather-boarded belfry that housed a single bell dated 1594 (cast by John Dyer – bell foundry Chelmsford). A survey of the church by Nikolaus Pevsner for his book “The Buildings of England – Essex” published in 1954 shows the belfry was present and it was therefore removed after this date. The whereabouts of the bell is unknown.
The church was deconsecrated in 1985 and is now in a very sorry state.
Please visit www.flickr.com/photos/birchphotography/sets/7215762597178... for more photo's.
Nikon D300s || 35mm || ISO 200 || f/2 || 1/160s