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essex churches


Folder: english churches by county

stratford church

24 May 2012 172
there are few memorials in the church,this is to the lawyer james humphreys, +1830

stratford church

24 May 2012 140
jingoistic memorial to those from stratford who took part in the boer war, including one who died. this must have seemed an almost bizarre affectation 20 years later.

stratford church

24 May 2012 161
hooded cloaked figure roof corbel inside blore's church of 1832-4

stratford church

24 May 2012 133
angel roof corbel inside blore's church of 1832-4

stratford church

24 May 2012 173
seated man wearing jacobean clothing, roof corbel inside blore's church of 1832-4

stratford church

24 May 2012 133
bird roof corbel inside blore's church of 1832-4

stratford church

24 May 2012 165
cross legged man with club roof corbel inside blore's church of 1832-4

stratford church

24 May 2012 113
angel roof corbel inside blore's church of 1832-4

stratford church

24 May 2012 188
winged beast roof corbel inside blore's church of 1832-4

stratford church

24 May 2012 138
drip mould stop on arcade inside blore's church of 1832-4

stratford church

24 May 2012 150
openwork font cover of 1884 in blore's nave

stratford church

24 May 2012 171
font with nice openwork metal cover, both c.1884 ,nave and aisles by blore, 1832-4

stratford church

24 May 2012 175
font and chancel of 1884,nave and aisles by blore, 1832-4

stratford church

24 May 2012 135
the nave and aisles are by blore,dating from 1832-4,with little figures below the tie beams and head stops to the drip moulds. this church is still pre-archaeological gothic, mixing correct details of many periods into an improbable whole.

stratford church

24 May 2012 177
detail of flying buttress on blore's church of 1832-4 carved with lots of little faces

stratford church

24 May 2012 164
the chancel is an extension of 1884

stratford church

24 May 2012 163
blore's church is good commissioners' gothic of 1832-4, little altered apart from a victorian chancel and an unusually sensitive modern extension.

martyrs' memorial, stratford churchyard

24 May 2012 188
detail of a rather spectacular memorial to the many protestants burned here in the reign of mary I, obviously no time to be a rationalist . each side lists those killed. it is dated 1878,designed by j.t.newman,and made of terracotta by johnson and co. of ditchling in sussex

1998 items in total