NEWSThe Revd Dimitri Theulings has been appointed Rector of Beccles with Worlingham, North Cove & Barnby. He will be licensed by the Right Revd Dr Mike Harrison, Bishop of Dunwich, on Monday 22nd April at St Michael's. Revd Dimitri is currently Assistant Curate at Ipswich St Matthew with Triangle & All Saints.On Candlemas Sunday candles were held by all for the singing of the Candlemas hymn and the service closed with the reciting of the Candlemas Responsery. The new LED lighting in the nave is now installed, along with LED bulbs fitted in the chancel spotlights. Many thanks to Malcolm for taking the initiative on this project and for overseeing its implementation. The Spring Equinox is on Wednesday 20th March and, weather permitting, the illumination of the rood will be visible on the 19th, 20th and 21st March at about 5.15pm. The event will be informal this year: no formal talk and no refreshments, but people are more than welcome to come and experience the event for themselves. The January sales table, furnished with delicious home produce and plants, was organised by Sarah Jane and raised a very useful £100.00. At the time of writing, August and November in the current year are in need of sales table organisers. If you can help, please add your name to the list at the back of the church. 172 items were donated to the Food Bank in January. As well as thanking us for our donations, the Revd Pam Bayliss has written to say the Food Bank would be particularly grateful for: small tins of meat, tins of hotdogs, tinned fish, tins of baked beans, and baked beans with sausages, long life fruit juice, shampoo and plastic bags. The refugee charity Care4Calais (care4calais.org), has asked for help with donations to support their work. Items needed are men’s hoodies, T-shirts, joggers and jeans, men’s coats and jackets, new underwear and socks (for men, women & children), men’s toiletries, and backpacks. The nearest drop-off point for donations is 4A Bardolph Road, Bungay, and items can be dropped there on Mondays only from 10am to 11am and 4pm to 5pm, or leave them in the front porch 10am-5pm. FORWARD PLANNINGThere will be a Service of Baptism and Confirmation on Sunday 17th March at which David Ulph of our congregation will be baptised and confirmed. The Right Revd Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough, will be the celebrant, visiting us for the final time before his retirement at Easter. We are most appreciative of the support he has given Holy Trinity Barsham & we wish him a long and fulfilling retirement. SNIPPETS – Barsham connections in a wider worldIn November I was contacted by a history researcher in Canada, wanting to know if there is a monument to Captain Maurice Suckling RN in Holy Trinity, Barsham. The principal subject of his research, he told me, was Captain James Cook RN, but he had become interested in Maurice Suckling (1725-1778) because the latter was Comptroller of the Navy (from 1775 to 1778) at the time of Cook's later voyages of discovery. The Comptroller of the Navy was the head of the Navy Board, responsible for all warship construction and upkeep as well as dockyards, and was therefore a vital sponsor in the preparation and support of Cook’s voyages. On his voyage of 1776-1779, Cook charted for the first time almost the entire north-west coastline of North America and, searching for the North-West Passage in 1778, he sailed through the Bering Strait and established the extent of Alaska. Cook named a feature on the Alaskan coastline ‘Cape Suckling’ in honour of Maurice. The Suckling Hills, some two miles inland, take their name from the Cape.Maurice was born at Barsham Rectory, the son of the Revd Dr Maurice Suckling DD and his wife Anne. As well as his responsibilities at the Admiralty, Maurice was briefly MP for Portsmouth, but earlier in his career he had distinguished himself in the Seven Years War as captain of a warship. He was the patron of the young Horatio Nelson, his nephew, overseeing his early experience in the Royal Navy and enabling his early promotion. The burial register indicates that Captain Maurice was buried with his parents in the chancel at Barsham, but unlike his parents and his brother William, he has no ledger stone. He is, however, commemorated on the Trafalgar window, installed in the nave in 1905, 127 years after his death. There is a second Cape Suckling, this one on the coast of Central Province, Papua New Guinea, and also a Mount Suckling, the highest peak of the Goropu Mountains in the Owen Stanley Range of south-east Papua New Guinea. At 3,676m (12,060ft), Mount Suckling is not especially high, but it is sufficiently inaccessible that it wasn’t explored or climbed by westerners until the 1970s. This Cape Suckling and Mount Suckling were named in 1849 for a Barsham-born naval officer of a different generation, Captain Robert William Suckling RN (1810-1881). On a voyage of 1846-1850 he served as First Lieutenant on the Royal Navy survey ship HMS Rattlesnake under Captain Owen Stanley RN. Their mission was tochart a safe passage through the Great Barrier Reef and the gap between the northern tip of Australia and Papua New Guinea, the goal being to open up the new antipodean colonies to the East Indies trade. Rattlesnake’s naturalists and marine artists created some of the earliest depictions of Papua New Guinea. Like Captain Maurice, Robert William Suckling was born in the Rectory at Barsham (the son of the Revd Horace Suckling and his wife Catherine) and like Maurice, his only memorial here is in stained glass – the Trafalgar window, commemorating two men who went out from this place and left their mark on a wider world.MARCH DIARYSunday 3rd March – Third Sunday in Lent. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Jonathan Olanczuk.Sunday 10th March – Fourth Sunday in Lent. Mothering Sunday. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP) with distribution of flowers. Revd Canon John Fellows.Sunday 17th March – Passion Sunday. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP) with Service of Baptism & Confirmation. The Right Revd Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough & Revd Josh Bailey.Sunday 24th March – Palm Sunday. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Josh Bailey.Thursday 28th March – Maundy Thursday. 7.30pm at Holy Trinity Bungay, Holy Communion with Footwashing.Friday 29th March – Good Friday. 10.30am Walk of witness in Bungay, starting at Emmanuel Church. 12 noon at Holy Trinity Bungay, 6th hour service of prayer & meditation. 2pm at Holy Trinity Barsham, 9th hour service of prayer & meditation. Saturday 30th March – 9pm Easter Compline & Vigil, Holy Trinity Bungay.Sunday 31st March – Easter Sunday. 6am Sunrise Service, Outney Common, Bungay. 11am Sung Eucharist, Holy Trinity Barsham (BCP). Revd Josh Bailey.Wednesdays at 8.45am – Matins at Barsham.Church correspondent: Robert Bacon 07867 306016, robert.bacon@yahoo.co.uk
NEWSGlorious music, familiar Christmas readings and a full nave, beautified with elegant floral decorations and candle light, made for a magnificent Carol Service on 21st December. Sarah Emes released the magic with a beautifully rendered solo first verse of Once in Royal, before the choir processed under the spectacular, candle-lit candelabra to their stalls. The choir sang the anthem Still, Still, Still and led the singing splendidly, their descants rising majestically over the hearty singing of the congregation. Many thanks particularly to Sarah and to organist David Blunkell for the preparation of the music. After the service the draw took place for the two amazing hampers (filled by generous donations), and the delicious and beautifully decorated cake made by Jean Cooksley. This raised a record £315.00 for church funds. This memorable evening was rounded off with mulled wine, spiced apple juice, mince pies and hot sausage rolls. We were delighted to welcome the Very Revd Joe Hawes, Dean of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, to preside at Eucharist on Christmas Eve. Having travelled from windowsill to windowsill down the nave over the Christmas period, the figurines of the three Magi arrived at the crib in time for 6th January and Epiphany, the feast celebrating the visit of the Magi to the new-born Jesus, having been led by the star to Bethlehem. The event is depicted in stained glass in the left-hand window of the side chapel (see Snippets). New lighting will be fitted in the nave on 2nd February which, appropriately, is the day of Candlemas. These LED lamps will provide an improved quality of light and be more efficient in terms of electricity consumption and longevity. Funded from the sale of the Learner teddy bears, this project offers a neat symmetry since it was Mike Learner who installed the electrics after the fire of 1979. The visitors book contains 112 entries for the year 2023, representing 219 people (83 entries and 131 people in 2022), including groups such as the Hempnall Walking Group, the U3A, the Wensum Ramblers and a Salvation Army group from Chelmsford. Not all visitors sign, of course. Overseas visitors came from Finland, Canada, and four States of the USA (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Wisconsin and Florida). Closer to home, there were visitors from Northern Ireland, London and 17 English counties. Two thirds of entries were made by people from Norfolk and Suffolk, and a quarter of these were from Beccles. The rectors who went to such lengths to beautify this church in the later 19th and early 20th centuries would be gratified by the appreciative remarks of today’s visitors – adjectives springing from the pages of the visitors book include: ‘heavenly’, ‘divine’, ‘very special’, ‘beautiful’, ‘superb’, ‘delightful’, ‘splendid’, ‘stunning’, ‘amazing’, ‘wonderful’, ‘magnificent’. Many thanks for your donations towards post-service refreshments, which totalled £338.00 over the past year. Christmas card tree donations raised £125.00 for Water Aid. Food Bank donations in December amounted to 233 items. Amy reports that donations for the whole of the year 2023 amounted to 2,346 items – a very similar quantity to the previous year (2,352 in 2022). Many thanks to Amy for continuing to administer this service and to everyone who contributes. FORWARD PLANNINGThere will be a Service of Confirmation on Sunday 17th March celebrated by the Right Revd Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough. SNIPPETS – Edward & Agnes Finlay: chapel benefactors When the present chapel of St Catherine was built in 1908 a number of benefactors provided the means for its beautification, including Colonel William Churchman (The Madonna Sewing) and the Revd Edward Bullock Finlay and his wife Agnes Maria Finlay, who are remembered in an inscription on the Epiphany window: In pious memory of Edward B Finlay, priest: who died at Salisbury January 13th 1896 and Agnes Maria his wife who died October 27th1908: wherefore may God propitiate their souls. Three items in the chapel are associated with the Finlays. The Epiphany window, the trompe d’oeil and an old oak reading desk, originally from the library of Merton College, Oxford and donated in 1896, the year Edward died. The trompe d’oeil was painted in 1909, the year after Agnes died, and the memorial window was installed in 1916, both paid for with a £50.00 Finlay gift, which may have been a legacy left by Agnes: the Rector, Allan Coates, was one of two people granted probate in December 1908 after Agnes died. Both the trompe d’oeil and the window were designed by Frederick Eden, designer of stained glass and church fittings, who specialized in Anglo-Catholic interior embellishments.The Finlays’ only link with Barsham appears to have been their connection with Allan Coates, and the nature of that connection remains obscure, though it is tempting to wonder if Edward Finlay was an Anglo-Catholic priest, like Coates. Only a sketchy record of Edward Finlay’s life remains. He graduated from Worcester College, Oxford in 1849 and next appears in the record as Second Master at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Dedham from 1853 to 1854. In the latter year he was ordained deacon, and priest in 1855 in the Diocese of Norwich. There followed a restless string of curacies, at Stratford St Mary (1854-1857), Frittenden, Kent (1857-1859), Gazeley with Kentford, near Newmarket (1859-1861) and Lavington, Sussex (1863-1864). His ministry then appears to come to a halt and he is described in the 1871 and 1881 census returns as ‘priest without cure of souls’, living respectively in Folkestone and Beaconsfield, and by 1891 he was living in Avebury, Wiltshire. I wonder if his wandering curacies and his apparently truncated ministry were the result of the persecution of Anglo-Catholic priests by the ecclesiastical and political establishments of the time. Edward’s wife Agnes was the daughter of an Indian woman recorded only as ‘Culoo’ and Gerald Wellesley (1790-1833), the East India Company Resident in the Indian State of Indore, whose own father was Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of India from 1798 to 1805. Gerald Wellesley had three children with Culoo, who was his mistress, but in 1830 he decided that he and his children would return to England. He travelled separately from his children, who were put in the care of guardians, given the name Fitzgerald and described as Wellesley’s ‘adopted children and protégés’. Culoo does not appear to have come to England, so perhaps she died or was simply abandoned in India by Wellesley, who himself died in 1833. By this time Agnes was only eight years old and was brought up by guardians, eventually marrying Edward Finlay in Dedham in 1856 at the age of 31. It seems Edward and Agnes did not have children. FEBRUARY DIARYSunday 4th February – Second Sunday before Lent. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). RevdJonathan Olanczuk.Sunday 11th February – Sunday before Lent. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Josh Bailey.Wednesday 14th February – Ash Wednesday. 10am Holy Communion, Holy Trinity, Bungay. Revd Josh Bailey.7pm Holy Communion, All Saints, Mettingham. Sunday 18th February – First Sunday of Lent. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Josh Bailey.Sunday 25th February – Second Sunday of Lent. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Josh Bailey.No Service of Matins on Wednesday mornings in February. Church correspondent: Robert Bacon 07867 306016, robert.bacon@yahoo.co.uk
NEWSThe Christmas card tree in the side chapel is for those who wish to place on it a Christmas greeting to the whole church family, rather than sending individual cards. If you would like to make a charitable donation with the money thus saved, please use the box provided and the proceeds will be forwarded to WaterAid. Many thanks to Sarah Jane for organising this. After morning service on Sunday 10th December Sarah Jane was presented with a Christmas hamper by the PCC as a mark of its appreciation for the considerable initiative, effort and perseverance she has shown over the last two and a half years raising funds through the sale of the Learners’ legacy teddy bears. Sarah Jane added her thanks to Doreen Springall and Amy Hogan for their help in manning sales stalls at various events. There are now just 33 bears left from the original 1,300 and the cumulative total of legacy bear sales now stands at £3,108.00, which is a remarkable achievement. This money is to be spent on modernising and improving the church lighting: an appropriate use of these funds since it was Mike Learner who installed the electrics during the post-fire restoration work of 1979-1982. Many thanks to those who contributed items for the Christmas hamper, and to Jean Cooksley who made the Christmas cake. Both are to be raffled after the Service of Carols and Readings. Sunday collections in November amounted to £1,231.00. The sales table organised by Chris Bardsley raised a record-breaking £285.00, largely as a result of her highly desirable and beautiful festive greeting cards.Barsham PCC acknowledges with deep gratitude a very generous donation of £1,000.00. Many thanks also to Beccles Lions for funding the cost of love box carriage, which amounted to £429.00.Thank you for the144 items donated to the Foodbank in November, as always fully appreciated by the Revd Pam Bayliss and her team. As the calendar year comes to an end and a new one begins, the PCC would like to thankeveryone who has contributed to the life of our church through the year: in worship, at special events, in the upkeep and beautification of the church and churchyard, and in the support of charitable causes. By the same token, we should also acknowledge the commitment shown by members of the PCC in the essential and varied tasks that keep the church functioning.Best wishes for Christmas and a happy New Year!FORWARD PLANNINGThe Service of Carols & Readings will be on Thursday 21st December at 6.30pm.Mulled wine, mince pies and sausage rolls will be served after the service. The Revd Canon Philip Banks, Canon Precentor at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, will be our visiting celebrant and preacher at morning service on Sunday 24th December. There will be a service of Sung Eucharist at 10.30am on Christmas Day (no refreshments after the service).There will be no Wednesday morning services of Matins throughout the cold months of January and February. SNIPPETS – Christmas 1909 and the Madonna SewingThe large painting of the Madonna Sewing in the side chapel (photo, front cover) is eye-catching and frequently attracts the attention of visitors. It was a gift to the church from Colonel William Churchman (later Colonel Sir William Churchman, 1st Baronet, JP, DL) on Christmas Day 1909. Colonel Churchman spent most of his life in the Ipswich area and was Mayor of Ipswich in 1899/1900, but he lived for a brief period in Barsham as tenant of Ashmans Hall. He was a partner with his brother in the family tobacco firm of W A & A C Churchman, with branches in Ipswich and Norwich. In 1896 in the early days of ‘white cigarettes’, the firm installed one of the first cigarette-making machines, which could produce 20,000 cigarettes an hour, and Churchman’s No.1 became one of the most famous brands of the day.The side chapel was built in 1908, replacing an earlier one that had been demolished in 1785, and the Madonna Sewing was one of several gifts made at the time to furnish and beautify the new chapel. Thought to be early 19th century, the painting gifted by Colonel Churchman is a copy of a 17th century fresco in the Chapel of the Annunciation at the Quirinale Palace in Rome. It is the same size as the original, which is one part of a series of frescos around the walls of the chapel, depicting episodes in the life of the Virgin Mary, starting with the Archangel Gabriel’s announcement to her father Joachim, finishing with the Virgin meeting God the Father in heaven and featuring an altar piece portraying the Annunciation. The Chapel was built on the orders of Pope Paul V, who employed Guido Reni, one of the great masters of the time, to paint the frescos in 1610. The Chapel was dedicated to the devotion of the Virgin Mary. It was Paul V’s private – and secret – chapel, hidden behind a mirrored door in the Tapestries Room of the Quirinale, but was nonetheless one of the great repositories of artistic treasures of the age. The painting portrays a largely domestic scene, though the arches at top right (now only dimly visible) hint at a temple and Mary’s faith, and the two angels helping her in her sewing task point to her connection with God. The meaning of the scene is clarified by the inscriptions on the scrolls, which are in Italian on the original fresco in Rome, but in Latin on the Barsham copy. The first scroll translates as, ‘He who calls her, called her from the beginning’ and refers to the divine plan of predestination for Mary as the Mother of Christ. The second scroll quotes part of a verse from Isaiah and refers to Mary’s Immaculate Conception: ‘The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son’. Originally a papal palace, the Quirinale later became the residence of the King of Italy, and since 1946 it has been the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic. These days it is open to the public and it is possible to visit the chapel.January DiarySunday 31st December – First Sunday after Christmas. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Josh Bailey.Sunday 7th January – First Sunday of Epiphany. Baptism of Christ. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Jonathan Olanczuk.Sunday 14th January – Second Sunday of Epiphany. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Canon John Fellows.Sunday 21st January – Third Sunday of Epiphany. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Josh Bailey.Sunday 28th January – Candlemas. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Josh Bailey.Sunday 4th February – Second Sunday before Lent. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). RevdJonathan Olanczuk.No Service of Matins on Wednesday mornings in January and February. Church correspondent: Robert Bacon 07867 306016, robert.bacon@yahoo.co.uk
NEWSA Christmas hamper will be raffled at the Service of Carols and Readings on 21stDecember. Donations of suitable foodstuffs and drinks for the hamper would be much appreciated. Please liaise with Diana if you would like to contribute. The church was beautifully decorated with poppies, real and knitted (photo, front cover), for Remembrance Sunday. At morning service Neville Smith read the names of the Barsham and Shipmeadow men lost in the First World War, and the names of the American airmen killed in the Second World War when their B-24 Liberator bombers crashed, one in Barsham and one in Shipmeadow. The Two-Minute Silence was observed at 11:00am, followed by the National Anthem. A congregation of 28 people attended the Service of Remembrance at Barsham Village Hall on Saturday 11th November. The service was led by the Revd Josh, whose introduction to Remembrance was followed by the reading of names by Zane Blanchard, Peter Holmes and Neville Smith. The Two-Minute silence was observed at 11:00am, with the Last Post and Reveille played by a trumpeter from the Sir John Leman High School. Wreaths were then laid at the village war memorial and refreshments were available in the village hall afterwards.The PCC met for routine business on Monday 13th November and on Wednesday 22ndNovember the PCC will be holding the annual ‘Clergy Lunch’ as a means of expressing the appreciation of our entire congregation for the greatly valued service of our volunteer clergy, John Fellows and Jonathan Olanczuk. Warm thanks to everyone who filled Love Boxes. With the Beccles Red Hat Ladies, we donated 134 boxes: a record number. Special thanks to Chris and Carolyn, for their hard work in organising and running this project so successfully this year. Including the items presented at Harvest Festival, we donated a fine total of 284 items to the Foodbank in October. In her letter ahead of Christmas, the Revd Pam Bayliss of the Beccles Foodbank writes: ‘As always please would you thank your church for the donations which you so faithfully send in each week’. She goes on to explain the Foodbank Christmas plan: ‘This year we aim to fill socks! The idea is to take a pair of new socks, roll one sock up and put it in the toe of the other. Then fill the sock with small items, eg sweets, packets of tissues, small sachets of shampoo, shower gel, toothpaste and brushes, pens, chocolate money, small toys etc. Whatever your imagination takes you! The completed socks need to be labelled ‘man’, ‘lady’, ‘girl’ or ‘boy’. We will of course also be collecting sweets, mince pies, chocolates, selection boxes, puddings etc.’The monthly sales table raised a useful £50.00. Barsham PCC acknowledges with gratitude donations of £200.00 in memory of the late Peter Wittey. Many thanks to Doreen Springall whose Farm Gate Produce Stall this year raised a magnificent £391.00 for church funds.FORWARD PLANNINGThe Service of Carols & Readings will be on Thursday 21st December at 6.30pm.Mulled wine, mince pies and sausage rolls will be served after the service. There will be a service of Sung Eucharist at 10.30am on Christmas Day (no refreshments after the service).A Message from the Revd Josh Bailey for Advent“But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.” (Mark 13:32-33)Hopefully, even if Advent Calendars have been purchased, they have yet to be opened. This last expression of the cultural salience of Advent does manage to retain a little, if not much, of the traditional purpose of the season. Advent means ‘coming’, appearing; the Greek word is παρουσια (parousia). It is a coming that changes everything; long anticipated; immediately transformative.Jesus says something so surprising in the above passage that it seems some manuscripts assumed it was a typo and removed the offending word. Contrary to our assumption that Jesus’ divinity equates to omniscience, Jesus calmly tells His disciples that He does not know the date of His return.This gives still more force to His ensuing command. The certainty of His arrival combined with the unknowability of its day or hour creates an indefinite need for attentiveness. He is happy to entrust the specifics to His Father, but promises to continually be praying for and empowering us until that day dawns.The reason for this combination of trust and attentiveness is entirely contained within the event itself. Only two hundred to three hundred years ago, Christians had a radically different view of history. It still appears occasionally in modern accounts. On this understanding, events in the past only become understandable on the basis of what future realities they contribute towards. An otherwise random political assassination in Sarajevo on this reading becomes what we all now understand it to be: the spark which ignited the First World War. Viewing past events as in some sense determined by their consequences is frequently rejected as bad history: ‘Whiggish’ history. People in the past did not know about the consequences of their actions 50 years hence. One thoroughly modern analysis of history is that it is the catalogue of unintended consequences.But with Advent, Jesus weans us away from this human-centred, ultimately meaningless view of history. He tells us to keep watch for the ultimate future which will turn even the smallest details of our daily experience as His Church into deeply poignant steps towards the redemption of the cosmos. We cannot hope to truly discern pattern in the apparent chaos of personal and world events until the day and hour known to no-one but the Jesus’ Father.Advent is an opportunity to gaze forwards and backwards with the eyes of faith. We trust that all the events of our life and the history of the world will be clothed with glory through Jesus’ glorious appearing. We also trust that the uncertainty of date has no effect whatsoever on the certainty of the event itself.One way we will be attempting to express this as a Benefice is to approach Advent as a fasting time. Everyone is free to understand this how they wish, though one pattern that may be helpful for some is having one day in the week where we don’t eat until 3pm and avoiding meat and dairy on Wednesdays and Fridays. The reason to do this is that every time we are reminded that we would like whatever food it is, we use this as a prompt to thankfulness and prayer.DECEMBER DIARYSunday 3rd December – First Sunday of Advent. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). RevdJonathan Olanczuk.Sunday 10th December – Second Sunday of Advent. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Canon John Fellows.Sunday 17th December – Third Sunday of Advent. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Josh Bailey.Thursday 21st December – Service of Carols and Readings at 6.30pm. Revd Josh Bailey.Sunday 24th December – Fourth Sunday of Advent, Christmas Eve. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Canon John Fellows.Christmas Day, Monday 25th December – Sung Eucharist at 10.30am. Revd Josh Bailey.Sunday 31st December – First Sunday after Christmas. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Jonathan Olanczuk.Wednesdays at 8.45am – Matins at Barsham (except 27th December).Church correspondent: Robert Bacon 07867 306016, robert.bacon@yahoo.co.uk
