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Wednesday 12 March 2014

Chesfield

St Etheldreda is a ruin on private property and appears to be being maintained - which is nice.

Pevsner doesn't mention it.

St Etheldreda (1)

St Etheldreda (2)

A narrow road leads up to another which is now in ruins. Ivy clings to all that is left of its 600-year-old walls, and nettles and grass grow where men and women once knelt in prayer. Beside it is the manor house of Chesfield, still with its old boundary wall and the big chimney stacks which boldly proclaim its Stuart origin.

2 comments:

  1. A minor point but Pevsner does mention it on p.149 under Graveley which is referenced from Chesfield.

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    1. I rechecked my edition and it's not mentioned under Graveley - but I've got a first edition paperback (printed 1953) so presumably the oversight was corrected in later editions.

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