Church of St Leonard - Wixoe

Church - Wixoe, it just caught my eye..

Wixoe is a tiny village right on the Essex border to the east of Haverhill. Only the infant River Stour protects it from the busy Essex parish of Sturmer, which has not only had an apple named after it but was the birthplace of the racy 1960s actress Charlotte Rampling. Her father was the Vicar there; not a lot of people know that.

Wixoe consists mainly of Victorian cottages scattered along a narrow lane; if you look at it on an old map, you can see that the Colchester to Cambridge railway line ran straight through it, so this church was once a familiar sight. But that is now all gone, and the village is bypassed completely. You would never pass St Leonard unless you intended to.

St Leonard is the patron Saint of prisoners, and only a couple of Suffolk churches are dedicated to him.

Cut'n'pasted from : http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wixoe.htm