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The little chapel at the almshouses … is … so convenient for the old folk whose age and infirmities prevent some of them worshipping in the older but more distant chapel … (viz. at
Ingatestone Hall). Before the opening of the church of SS John the Evangelist and Erconwald in 1932, Catholics in the
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However, the endowment began to prove insufficient for the needs of the buildings themselves. The fabric deteriorated and they began to fall into disrepair. Once threatened with demolition, Lord Petre eventually offered the almshouses to the
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