When we travelled from the airport, we stayed in the nearby town of Saffron Walden. It's a picturesque place which is rather ruined by the traffic. The window is in the parish church. It has a picture which you can hardly see of Margaret of Anjou, who was Henry VI's wife.
Saffron Walden is home to the largest parish church in Essex. St. Mary the Virgin dates mainly from the end of the 15th century, when the previously existing and smaller church was extensively rebuilt in flint. In 1769 it was damaged by lightning and the repairs, carried out in the 1790s, removed many of the medieval features. The present spire was added in 1832 to replace an older ?lantern? tower. The church is 183 feet (56 m) long and the spire 193 feet (59 m) high, and is the tallest in Essex.
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