Churches in Essex: St. Edmund & St. Mary Church, Ingatestone
Home » Photography »I want to visit all of England’s counties, and in between, we’ve taken to making more of the weekends, by visiting places of interest in our home county of Essex as well as neighbouring counties.
It’s quite nice to go out for a drive and just discover things along the way. On a recent drive around Essex, we stopped at a few different churches. I’ve got a bit of a fascination with old graveyards; there is something amazing, yet sad about them. The thought that these graves marked loved ones, that were probably visited and tended with care, are now but relics. With decades, and even hundreds of years now passing, it’s likely no one visits them anymore…I don’t know, it touches me.
Anyway, onto the church that we visited – St. Edmund & St. Mary Church in Ingatestone, Essex.
Most of these posts will be a photographic story of what we see…I hope you find them as interesting as we did when we visited. I always seem to spot certain things when out about – especially flowers, plants and fungi! At the bottom of the path leading up to the church, there were beds of gorgeous flowers, and I even found a mushroom nestled amongst the gravestones.
I loved this old wooden door and wall, it made me wonder how many people have opened it and walked through it.
A lot of the gravestones were so old that most of the engraving had worn away over the decades, from those we could make out, some dated back as far as the early 1800s
The stones that had broken off over time, I think made the me saddest of all, and I liked that their was the decency and respect to have them still sitting in the graveyard. I wonder for how many more decades they will remain?
Saint Edmund and Saint Mary Church
High Street
Ingatestone
Essex
CM4 9DU
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October 12, 2014 @ 6:23 pm
This is lovely too. I find the broken and semi-discarded graves heartbreaking too. Why did people stop caring? xx
Michelle Ordever
October 12, 2014 @ 8:42 pm
I am hoping that fallen graves are just down to family lines ended, rather than vandalism – that would be more heartbreaking don’t you think? It’s the really old faded ones that make me feel sad, that no one alive remembers who is marked there. It reminds us of the fragility of life xx
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October 12, 2014 @ 9:51 pm
I’ve seen deliberately vandalised graves before – not for a long time thankfully – but it made me wish not very nice things upon the doers. If I were going to be buried I’d want a grand old thing which would make people stop and stare 100 years later, but the chances of having the funds for that are slim. ;) xx