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English: Beacon on Tower of St Mary the Virgin Church, Monken Hadley. When the Queen had her Golden Jubilee in 2002 beacons were lit in celebration. One of these was in the Church Tower of St Mary the Virgin at Monken Hadley. This was a genuine beacon not a gas fired replica.
The history of the beacon is as follows: on top of a turret at the South West angle of the tower is an iron cresset, fire pan or pitch-pot, an almost unique survivor of other days. It was erected by the monks to guide wayfarers crossing Enfield Chase by night, and travellers to or from St Albans, or the north. The beacon may have been used as late as 1745 to provide an alarm to warn of the Stuart rising in the North. It was used for a more pleasant occasion to mark the marriage of the Prince of Wales in 1863, when the future Edward VII married Princess Alexandra of Denmark. |
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| Author | Christine Matthews |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Christine Matthews and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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