East Mersea church: Gothick window
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The photograph on this page of East Mersea church: Gothick window by Stefan Czapski as part of the Geograph project.
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East Mersea church: Gothick window
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 15 Sep 2018
In the Essex volume of 'The Buildings of England', Pevsner mentions that a number of the church's medieval windows were 'replaced in the C18 by big bare pointed openings'. The photo shows one such window, on the south side of the building. 18th-century pointed church windows aren't all that common, and what I find interesting is that the style seems to be Strawberry Hill 'Gothick' - the Gothic revival style pioneered by Horace Walpole: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2784884 So an ecclesiastical style freely (mischievously?) adapted for secular use has here found its way back into church architecture.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.788578
Longitude
0.972284