Yesterday Somerset, today Essex!....

My Gapes family were in Ugley from 1605 to 1668.......so that means I have Ugley rellies!  St Peter's is at least 600 years old, with lots of Elizabethan and Victorian 'renovation'.

 

 

 

... this was modelled on one of mine I think...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clavering - where my Rumbolds lived the early to mid 1600's, and my Turners in the late 1500's...... the medieval church of St Mary and St Clement...

  

 

 

 

 

The Guildhall....

 

 

14th century screen....

 

 

13th century corbels....

 

 

 

14th century screen.....

 

 

15th century roof....

 

 

Norwegian pine church chest, circa 1420....

 

 

 

Medieval glass....

 

 

 

13th century font bowl....

 

 

 

 

 

The site of Clavering castle built by Robert Fitz Wymarc, a Kinsman of Edward the Confessor, a thousand years ago....

 

 

Robert Fitz Wymarc on the right supporting Edward the Confessor on his deathbed in a scene from the Bayeux tapestry......