The war memorial at St Edmund and St Mary's Church, Ingatestone
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The war memorial at St Edmund and St Mary's Church, Ingatestone
Image: © Marathon Taken: 13 May 2017
Simon Jenkins in 'England's Thousand Best Churches' says of St Edmund and St Mary's Church, Ingatestone: "The modern village has lost its charm and the church is an aristocrat lost amid the housing estates. That said, nothing can distract from its tower. Essex towers are not the timid brick turrets of the Thames Valley. They are huge, reflecting the ostentatious power of the county's Tudor potentates. This one is magnificent, a unified Perpendicular composition of redbrick with black Tudor diapering. Strong angle buttresses rise to a heavy battlemented crown, the bell-openings plain. The guide suggests that it is made of a million bricks." The war memorial stands on the green of the former churchyard between the church and High Street.
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