ST ANDREW. Overlooking the South Essex reservoir. C14 nave, early C16 brick tower with blue bricks in diaper pattern. Thin buttresses, two-light brick bell-openings. The chancel, also of brick, dates from the C19.
ABBERTON. The Old Stone Age man lived here, and some of his stone implements are in Colchester’s great museum. The cottages line two of three roads to the north of Peel Tie Common, a wild and rough expanse. The road to the west dips into a sudden valley and rises again to pass on one side a lovely wood concealing Abberton House, and on the other side, across a field, Abberton Hall with a homestead moat and ancient barns. Behind this old-world group lies the church, which has a small ironbound chest 400 years old and a 15th century font.
The church was built in the 14th century but restored in the last two centuries, so that only the lower course of the rubble walls of the chancel remains from medieval days. The nave has still two 14th century doorways, however, one used and one blocked up. There is a fine view from the top of the red brick tower, which has stood since the early years of the 16th century; at its foot once ran the Roman road from Colchester to the sea. In the churchyard is a gravestone carved with the skull and crossbones in 1701.
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The church was built in the 14th century but restored in the last two centuries, so that only the lower course of the rubble walls of the chancel remains from medieval days. The nave has still two 14th century doorways, however, one used and one blocked up. There is a fine view from the top of the red brick tower, which has stood since the early years of the 16th century; at its foot once ran the Roman road from Colchester to the sea. In the churchyard is a gravestone carved with the skull and crossbones in 1701.
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