Before the roads were altered and traffic was constantly speeding through Elevden it was probably difficult to appreciate quite how extraordinary a building this is. For a start, it has two towers. And a cloister. And two naves, effectively. And yet if you had seen this church before the 1860s, you would have thought it nothing remarkable. A simple aisle-less, clerestory-less building, typical of, and indistinguishable from, hundreds of other East Anglian flint churches. But it was to undergo three fabulously bankrolled building programmes in the space of thirty years, any one of which would have sufficed to transform it utterly. There were many changes most notablly by Prince Duleep Singh and later by the brewing family, the Guinness's.
The church is well worth a visit as is the churchyard
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