Marks Tey

The Lost Steeple of Steeple Bumpstead in Steeple Bumpstead, England

As curious as Steeple Bumpstead’s name may be in itself, it becomes all the more so considering that its parish church, St Mary’s, lacks the spire to make the eponymous steeple. In another Essex village, less than an hour’s drive away, lies one suggestion for the disappearance of St Mary’s steeple. In the village of Marks Tey, St Andrew’s church, an otherwise 14th-century stone building, bears…