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Chapel of St Peter-On-The-Wall
Bradwell on Sea
Essex
The Chapel is one of the oldest churches in England and is still an active place of worship today.
The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall was constructed between 660 and 662 AD by St Cedd, who was sent to evangelize the East Saxons. It is built on the site of a Roman fort, utilizing its bricks and stones, making it a unique blend of history and architecture. The chapel is recognized as a Grade I listed building, highlighting its architectural and historical importance. It was reconsecrated in 1920 and is now maintained by the Othona Community.
The chapel serves as an active place of worship, hosting regular services, including a Thursday morning Communion service. Special services are held during Christmas and Easter, and the chapel is a destination for the Bradwell Pilgrimage, which occurs annually in July
• ANDRE KIMCHE
• ANDRE KIMCHE
• ANDRE KIMCHE
• The Dengie Peninsula is still barren and desolate today, and I wanted the photographs to show that landscape in context with the chapel rather than treating the building as an isolated subject. The wheat field is a reminder that whoever lived and worshipped here would have farmed this land too, scraping a living from marsh and clay, a simple subsistence existence with nothing grand about it at all.
• Jon Wade
• The path leading to the chapel is the final stretch of St Peter's Way, a 41 mile route that starts at Chipping Ongar near the edge of London's sprawl and finishes here, at the edge of England. Pilgrims have walked it for over a thousand years, and the route still ends the same way it always has, on foot, across open marsh, with the chapel waiting at the end of it.
• Jon Wade
• The interior shots both look back out through the door, towards the landscape and the Way beyond, because that's really what the building has always been about. A point of arrival, not a destination in itself. The altar and cross show how plain the place is inside. No grandeur, nothing to distract from why you came.
• Jon Wade
• St Peter's Chapel at Bradwell-on-Sea isn't your usual religious building. There are no grand vistas, no stained glass, no gold leafed ceilings. It's religion laid bare. Ancient stone, much of it taken from the walls of an older Roman fort, used to raise a chapel dedicated to St Peter at the very end of St Peter's Way on the Essex coast.
• Jon Wade
• And the final image, the long abandoned lookout tower nearby, is there to underline just how isolated and exposed this stretch of coast still is. The chapel hasn't softened with time. If anything, the emptiness around it has only got more obvious.
• Jon Wade
• John Batch
• John Batch
• John Batch
• John Batch
• I took this with the wheat field moving in the breeze, as opposed to the solid Church which has stood still here for nearly 1400 years
• John McCarthy
• Again I wanted to show some movement in the flowers in front of the Church
• John McCarthy
• With the roof it is difficult to convey the grand structure. I show here a section only. This shows some repair to the brick work, I wonder if the wooden beams are original?
• John McCarthy
• I like this image as it conveys the minimalism within the church, showing the small altar, big stone slabs, plain bench's and light coming in through the small windows
• John McCarthy
• A narrow approach through the field of green leads up to the Church with its open, welcoming door.
• John McCarthy
• Mike Harris
• Mike Harris
• Mike Harris
• Mike Harris
• Mike Harris
• Took out the Infrared full spectrum converted camera on the walk used a combination of 25a Hoya filters and 720nm filters
• Tracy Gomez
• Tracy Gomez
• Tracy Gomez
• Tracy Gomez
• Last image captured on the way back to the car park only a short walk away. Infrared makes the image look like winter.
• Chapel of St Peter On The Wall 31.05.2026
• Tracy Gomez