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All Saints, Wickham St Paul

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A simple, rustic little church in the quiet north Essex lanes, the parish name coming from the living being in the ownership of St Paul's Cathedral. A fine red brick tower was added in the early 16th Century, reminiscent of that of a century earlier a few miles off at Gestingthorpe. There was a thorough restoration in the 1860s by Arthur Blomfield which was perhaps not very sympathetic to the rural character of the building. The highlight inside is the surprise of two good windows by John Hayward, fourteen years apart, for members of the Ruffle and Warren families. One depicts this church rising above the neighbouring farmhouse, the other a gentleman farmer and his wife with the agricultural implements mostly of a pre-mechanised age. Both are in Hayward's lively yet simple style, quiet and fitting for their setting here. The war memorial is unusual, what appears to be a pressed copper relief framed in wood with the names of ten lost boys on it, which today seems a remarkable number from such a lonely parish. Simon Knott, December 2021 Follow these journeys as they happen at Last Of England Twitter.

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