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Harold Road, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 6AJ

Depicting Our Lady of Light

This photograph shows the entrance to the Clacton Campus of Colchester Institute on Church Road, Clacton. The Clacton Campus opened in 1976 at the formation of Colchester Institute, when North East Essex Technical College merged with St Osyth Training College.

The church, which was constructed on Church Road between 1902 and 1903, is a Grade II Listed Building for the following principal reasons, from the Historic England website:- "Architectural interest: as an ambitious early-C20 neo-Norman design with accomplished treatment of stonework and detailing to the exterior. Interior: the Church has a finely detailed and executed vaulted and arcaded interior which retains many fixtures and fittings of interest." Please also see Image] which is a separate Grade II Listed Structure.

This picture shows the Colvin Memorial Temple, the Clacton masonic lodge, in Holland Road. It has been in use since 1937 (as noted on https://www.essexfreemasons.net/lodge/colvin-lodge). The photograph was taken from the other side of the street. A block of retirement flats on Carnarvon Road (in red brick and cream) is visible behind and to the left of the lodge.

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).

In addition to Image] the lych gate at the church, built later in 1925, is also a separate Grade II Listed structure. The principal reasons for the listing are, according to the Historic England website:- "* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impacts of world events on this parish community, and the sacrifices it made in the conflict of 1914-18; * Architectural interest: as a well-detailed Arts and Crafts gabled design of oak, brick and stone, with good sculptural detail; * Group value: the lych gate forms the entrance to the grounds of the Church of Our Lady of Light and St Osyth, Clacton-on-Sea, listed at Grade II, with which the gate has group value."