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Petre Almshouses chapel, Ingatestone

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. Originally a medieval foundation in the grounds of Ingatestone Hall, the almshouses were relocated in 1840 when the original site was demolished for the London to Colchester railway. The almshouses fell into disrepair in the 1970s, and were taken over by the Catholic Diocese of Brentwood. The original chapel at the centre of the three sided buildings has been refitted for Catholic worship of a rather traditional kind, although, as the nice nun explained to me, it was originally a Catholic foundation anyway, as the almshouses were founded before the Reformation. Simon Knott, September 2013

 

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