This photo is of the arched entrance to Saint John the Evangelist Church at Havering-Atte-Bower in Essex, England. It was built in 1877, it has a tower and six bells, with a 12th century marble front, built on the old Havering Palace site where Saint Mary's Chapel stood as part of the old palace. Havering Church, stands on the west side of the village green. It is a commonplace modern brick building, with Perpendicular windows, an ivy-covered chancel, wooden belfry, and short spire. The interior is plain, with high pews, and no monuments of interest. The front is the only vestige of the royal chapel. At the opposite corner of the green, facing the lane to Noakes Hill, is an immense elm, hollow, the top dead, and several of the upper branches gone: a magnificent ruin. Beneath it, that venerable symbol of civilization, the stocks and whipping-post.
  
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