Our 21st century Grand Tour of Britain moves on to an ancient church in Essex: the Chapel of St Peter on the Wall.
In the middle of the 7th century, King Sigebert of the East Saxons was converted to Christianity by his friend King Oswy of Northumbria, who sent Cedd, a monk from Lindisfarne, as a missionary.
Cedd made his way down the coast and landed at the old Roman fort of Othona on the south side of the Blackwater estuary. Here, he built a chapel and a small…
