Aldborough Hatch

Perhaps because it was the first church of the day I rather liked St Peter despite it being lnk (although the notice board does say that it's open on Weds 10-12) and entirely alien to Essex; I found its clean lines pleasing to the eye and think Pevsner's a bit harsh.

ST PETER, Aldborough Road. 1862 by Ashpitel. Small, very crude church of ragstone with little N turret at E end of nave in returning angle to chancel. - PLATE. Cup, Flagon and Almsdish from the chapel of Aldborough Hall, 1771.

Mee always, or rather usually, finds something positive whatever he finds:

One more modern church here, St Peter’s, we found at Aldborough Hatch near Barkingside, and it is interesting because it has in its walls some stones from old Westminster Bridge, the bridge on which Wordsworth stood when it seemed to him that Earth has not anything to show more fair.

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