St Mary, Salcott-cum-Virley, Essex
We still left Tollesbury on the coast and turned in direction of Colchester, with the prospect of a amount of little churches in rapid succession, not least simply because we were now coming into earthquake state. The terrific Essex earthquake of April 1884 wrecked hundreds of structures including wrecking a dozen churches, some of which have been completely destroyed. There were two church buildings right here, but only a person was repaired, the previous Virley parish church remaining as a picturesque damage in someone’s yard. Despite the title, this is just just one very small village divided by a stream, and they have not been separate parishes for a century or a lot more, but the BoE even now insists on providing them separate entries.
Open up. This church was the true star of my day. It is lovely. Beyond the wire grill the interior doors ended up held open with weighty weights, and this is an utterly delightful Substantial Anglo-catholic rustic church, reminding me of Calthorpe in Norfolk. It is attractive. Statues and candles, yes, but also straightforward woodwork and brick flooring. There is a poster marketing it as a Coffee Level, apparently a area initiative the place any person out for a walk or whatsoever can go into a setting up and make on their own a cup of coffee or tea and sit down for a rest. All the products for doing so was at the back again of the church.
The total church aside from the tower was wrecked in the earthquake, and was rebuilt some 10 several years later on (thankfully late sufficient to escape the worst excesses of Victorianism). A mark of how Substantial this church continue to is currently is that the millennium window depicts the Roman Catholic symbol of the millennium. This was my favorite church of the day, and there have been nevertheless various good kinds to appear.
Incidentally, the pre-earthquake Virley church is the one so evocatively explained in Sabine Baring-Gould’s splendid Mehalah.
Posted by Simon Knott on 2014-03-21 06:42:20
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