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| Harvest Festival at Stondon Massey (Essex) in 2008. The Service was led by members of the congregation. | ||||||
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| 'Through Changing Scenes: a history of the church and community' (April 2008) drew two audiences to hear about Stondon's past, including that of Elizabethan composer, William Byrd, and our Victorian Rector, Revd. Edward Reeve. | ||||||
| Photographs by Michael Harris (below) |
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| Various scenes of St Peter & St Paul Church, Stondon Massey in different seasons | ||||||
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Michael Harris is a church member and keen amateur photographer. Left: Church from Ongar Road Right: Floodlit scene Below: The interior of the church, two taken at Christmas |
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| Elizabethan composer, William Byrd (1543 - 1623), lived for the last thirty years of his life at Stondon Massey. He is thought to have been buried in the churchyard. This memorial was placed in the church to commemorate the tercentenary of his death in 1923. | One of the features in the church is a Jacobean pulpit and reading desk dated 1630. On the panels of the desk are the words "Christ is All in All" while the pulpit is carved "2 Tim. iv 1-2", the reference to "preach the word in season and out of season". | |||||
| Last Updated: 15 July 2009 | ||||||
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