Little Maplestead, Braintree, Essex - St John the Baptist - local postcard c.80s

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• Picture / Image:  Little Maplestead [Braintree, Essex]
• Publisher: Royal British Legion Women's Section Eastern Area, Cambridge
• Postally used: no
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^{Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :}

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^{Little Maplestead is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England.}

^{Little Maplestead once had a Knights Hospitaller establishment called Little Maplestead Preceptory.[2]}

^{The round parish church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, is a Grade II* listed building[3] dating from around 1335. It is one of only four medieval round churches in England now surviving and was built by the Knights of St John. In March 2013 the church was granted £5,000 by the National Churches Trust towards the repair of the gutters. A total of £42,000 has now been raised for a restoration project at the church, which was started by supporters two years ago, with a fund-raising target of £100,000. Some restoration took place in the 1850s, but the original design and composition of the rotunda that forms the nave remains, as do many of the earlier fittings.[4] In 1836, William Wallenpublished The History and Antiquities of the Round Church at Little Maplestead, Essex.}

^{Every year on the first Sunday in June, the Order of St John in Essex hold an annual service, where Knights and other officials of The Order from the county process in their formal Mantels (ceremonial cloaks).}

^{y Haven Bridge and to the A47 and A149 by the Breydon Bridge.}