Holy Trinity Church, Colchester (4 images)

[stuart]

New images added to Project Woruldhord, courtesy of Phil Toms,
Colchester.

See: http://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/contributions/719

Described as: "Holy Trinity Church is the oldest surviving building in
Colchester. The church is located on Trinity Street opposite the town
library. Parts of the church tower are believed to date to around 1050
(the Anglo-Saxon period), pre-dating Colchester Castle (c.1074). In
particular, there is a unique pointed Saxon doorway in the West side
of the tower. The churchyard contains the burial place of English
madrigal composer John Wilbye (d.1638), and William Gilberd (d. 1603)
discoverer of electro-magneticism and physician to Queen Elizabeth I.

The church was extended in the 14th century, adorned with dripstone
carvings, 17th century hatchments and further extended in the
Victorian period. The church was made redundant in 1956 and was
converted to a Museum of Rural History in the 1970s. Since 1997, it
has been closed to the public but CO1 is working with Colchester
Borough Council and English Heritage to restore the Grade 1 listed
building as a place of national importance, incorporating a public
café, a youth music and arts venue and a place for communities to meet
and be supported."

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Stuart Lee
Oxford