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All Saints, Stock Harvard

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This church is one of the best examples of the typical Essex style with its weather-boarded belfry and wooden spire, and one of the loveliest too. We are not far from the M25 here, but this feels like deepest Essex, lush and rolling countryside concealing hamlets and little churches. You step into a wide interior, simple and full of colour. The church is still very much in the Anglo-Catholic tradition that brought it post-war glass by Reginald Bell and Michael Farrar-Bell. The scenes depicting churchgoers of the 1940s are real period pieces. There was a major restoration and quality refurnishing here in the early 1980s under the eyes of Laurence King. The old rectory next door is now the official residence of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Brentwood, and I am sure he would be quite at home here. I felt at home here too. Simon Knott, August 2013 Follow these journeys as they happen at Last Of England Twitter.

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