Church of Our Lady of Light and St Osyth
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Image: © Duncan Graham Taken: 8 Mar 2009
The photograph shows the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Light and St Osyth, taken from a rear balcony of a block of flats on Carnarvon Road. This church was built in 1902-3 and is a Grade II listed building. The rear garden of Christ Church United Reformed Church nearby is in the foreground of the picture, on the other side of Holland Road. The tree in the garden is no longer there. St Osgyth or Osyth was a seventh-century abbess of Chich (the Essex village renamed St Osyth), the details of whose life have been confused with other female saints and possibly another seventh-century saint of the same name. (Source: entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
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