Dengie church: walling materials (1)
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Dengie church: walling materials (1)
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 11 Jun 2016
In the Essex volume of 'The Buildings of England', Pevsner has this to say: 'The Royal Commission [on Historical Monuments] notes in the walls the use of C14 yellow bricks apart from Roman bricks. The variety of colour in the walls is altogether remarkable: septaria, that is a brown stone, flint, pebble, and the bricks'. Well, Roman bricks are thin and red, and I have to say I found very few of them - which is a pity, as they are normally reckoned to be evidence of Saxon work: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4708019 The yellow bricks - said to be 14th century - are obvious enough in my 'sample' (taken from the west wall of the church). What impressed me most was the size of the flints - huge things, far bigger than the general run of flints seen on (say) the South Downs. I saw others in use nearby, and (knowing little of the local geology) I'm puzzled as to how they got here.
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