Visited on 27th March 2018. It was very bright weather and hard to get a decent shot of this beautiful church. It was closed.
Advertisements
Blackmore – Priory Church of St Laurence
Category: St Laurence
Waltham Abbey – the Abbey Church of the Holy Cross and St Laurence
This church is all that remains of the once large Waltham Abbey, which gave the present town of Waltham Abbey its name. It’s got a beautiful ceiling.
We visited once on the 20th February 2010, due for another visit I think.
Interior:
Noticeboard:
Thaxted – St John the Baptist with Our Lady and St Laurence
Thaxted church is one of the most beautiful in Essex, and is situated at the top of a hill lined with notable old houses. There is a Guildhall dating from around 1450 just nearby and also a windmill. All very photogenic!
I have lots of photos of this church, a couple from a visit on a beautiful sunny day on 19th March 2012 and the rest from a visit on another beautiful sunny day on 6th April 2017.
Exterior and views around the churchyard:
Interior:
Eastwood – St Laurence and All Saints
St Laurence is a very old church which now finds itself at the end of a runway at Southend Airport! There is a sarsen stone at the base of a pillar, very difficult to photograph. These pics were taken on a visit to the church on 5th May 2017.
I couldn’t embed a Google map so I will give you the address instead: St Laurence & All Saints Church, Junction of Aviation Way and Eastwoodbury Lane, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6UN
Exterior:
St Laurence and All Saints
The porch
Southend Airport is just the other side of the fence
Tiny door with a scratch dial above it
Interior:
The font
Looking down the nave to the chancel
16th century silverware
Restoration notebook dated 1873/1874
Reredos
St Laurence is a ground floor ring of 6 bells, here the ropes are kept up out of harm’s way with a spider
6 bell ropes held up by a spider
Dates the bells were cast
