NEWSOn consecutive Sundays in September, we were pleased to welcome visiting preachers Archdeacon Sally Gaze and Archdeacon Rich Henderson. On the latter occasion, 24th September, a congregation of 53 included a Salvation Army group from Chelmsford, some of whom returned in the evening for the Barsham Equinox Event. For our Equinox Event, 58 people came over three days in the hope of seeing the rood lit by the sinking Equinox sun. 29 attended on the day of the Equinox itself. Results were mixed. Cloud obscured the sun on the evening before the Equinox, but on the day of the Equinox (23rd September) a magnificent display saw the figure of Christ gloriously illuminated. The following day, after a promising start, the sun sank into cloud at the critical moment. Many thanks to Colin for introducing the event on the first two days.We were delighted that the Right Revd Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough returned to be our visiting preacher at Choral Evensong for Harvest Festival on Sunday 8thOctober (photo, front cover). An augmented choir led the music and the inclusion of an anthem in this fine service was a treat for all 49 in attendance. The flower arrangers had beautified the church most impressively, Colin and Margaret’s squashes were everywhere lending colour and extraordinary form, and a display of tinned produce blessed at the morning service and destined for the Beccles Food Bank decorated the front of the nave.50 guests, including Bishop Norman, sat down for a magnificent harvest supper in the village hall after choral Evensong. Excellent company and fabulous fare were complemented by the beautifully decorated tables, the whole making for a joyful and festive atmosphere. Heartfelt thanks to the team who worked so tirelessly to prepare and serve the food and drinks, decorate the tables – and clear up afterwards: all involving many hours of hard work over several days. This was quite possibly the most successful Barsham harvest supper yet and raised a record sum of £735.00 for Church funds. Thank you to everyone who has been filling Love Boxes for the Mustard Seed Relief Mission Christmas campaign. Please return all boxes before Sunday 22nd October, when the boxes will be blessed at the beginning of the Sunday service. The Beccles Lions have kindly agreed to cover the cost of carriage and representatives of the Lions will be present for the blessing. A special service of Choral Evensong in celebration and thanksgiving for the work of the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust on its 50th anniversary was held at St Edmundsbury Cathedral on Sunday 17th September. At the invitation of H.M. Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, the Countess of Euston, who is also the Patron of the SHCT, Cheryl attended as Area Organiser for Beccles, and Malcolm and Chris Bardsley attended to represent Holy Trinity Barsham. After the Lord Lieutenant, High Sheriff and Resident Judge had taken their seats, the service opened with a magnificent procession, which included: the Ride and Stride Organisers, Vice Presidents of the SHCT, representatives of the Church Architects who advise PCCs on the repair and maintenance of churches, representatives of the Church Historians who research and bring to life the history of our legacy of churches, the Trustees and Officers of the SHCT. These were followed by singers from a local primary school and then the Cathedral Choir, and after them the clergy – Ecumenical and Clergy representatives, the Archdeacons, the Cathedral Chapter, the Dean, the Roman Catholic Bishop of East Anglia, and the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. Symbolically, a bicycle leaned against the High Altar.The PCC thanks Fr Desmond Banister for his generous gift to Holy Trinity Barsham of two chasuble sets, one green and one white. Barsham PCC acknowledges with deep gratitude very generous donations of £1,000.00 and £200.00 which will greatly aid the Church finances for the current year. The sales table organised by Jenny raised a creditable £90.00.Our donations to the Foodbank in September amounted to 188 items.FORWARD PLANNINGAll Saints Day will be marked with a celebration of Holy Communion at 10am on Wednesday 1st November at Holy Trinity, Bungay. All welcome.The Service of Remembrance at Barsham Village Hall will take place on Saturday 11th November. The service will start at 10.45am and the Last Post, two-minute silence and Reveille will be observed at 11.00am. Wreaths will be laid at the village war memorial and the names of Barsham’s First World War dead will be called, as will the names of the American airmen killed when their aircraft crashed opposite the village hall in April 1944. Refreshments will be served afterwards in return for a donation. Everyone is welcome.The Commemoration of St Martin will be marked by the celebration of Holy Communion with the Community of All Hallows at 9am on Saturday 11th November at 23 Trinity Street, Bungay. All welcome. SNIPPETS – 50 Years of the Suffolk Historic Churches TrustBy the mid-20th century, the great era of Victorian church restoration was long gone and many Suffolk churches had fallen into disrepair and even ruin. Responding to this crisis in the late 1960s, Canon Fitch of Brandon wrote a manifesto detailing the dilapidation of Suffolk churches and the remedies needed. Simultaneously, Hugh Fitzroy, 11th Duke of Grafton and Patron of the Suffolk Preservation Society, was working towards establishing a body that could support the restoration and upkeep of Suffolk’s 600 churches and chapels. Out of these initiatives sprang the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust in December 1973. Initially, the Trust relied upon the generosity of benefactors and funding from County and District Councils, but the idea of the Bike Ride (later renamed Ride & Stride) was born in 1982 and this very quickly became the principal source of funding. These days Ride & Stride raises approximately £20,000 a year, half of which is returned to the churches nominated by the Ride & Stride participants, and the other half goes to SHTC, where it is added to the legacies and membership fees that make up the funds from which grants are made. (Adapted from a historical note in the order of service for the 50th Anniversary Choral Evensong)November DiarySunday 5th November – All Saints. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Jonathan Olanczuk.Sunday 12th November – Third Sunday before Advent. Remembrance Sunday. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Canon John Fellows.Sunday 19th November – Second Sunday before Advent. Safeguarding Sunday. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Josh Bailey. Sunday 26th November – Christ the King. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Josh Bailey. Wednesdays at 8.45am – Matins at Barsham.Church correspondent: Robert Bacon 07867 306016, robert.bacon@yahoo.co.uk
NEWSAfter Sunday service on 3rd September, we were delighted to join Dick and Molly in celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary. Bubbly and a spread of tasty delights were served and a toast to Dick and Molly was proposed by Chris Lambert, their best man of 60 years ago. The magnificent Organ Recital given by Liz Vennard (photo, front cover) on Saturday afternoon 19th August attracted an audience of some 60 people. The programme included a wide variety of pieces in a range of moods, amongst them some light-hearted works by Liz herself; Mendelssohn’s stately Adagio from his Sonata No.1; Bach’s well-known Fugue in G Minor, and his fiendish Gigue Fugue, played mostly on the pedals. Marcel Dupré’s Placare Christe Servulis was my favourite, and Liz brought the recital to a triumphant close with the exuberant Sortie in Eb by Louis Lefébure-Wély. The recital was much enhanced by the entertaining and fascinating insights provided by Liz before each set of pieces. Liz very generously made no charge for the recital, enabling all £260 of donations to benefit the church. It was a great pleasure to welcome Liz back to Barsham and we hope very much that she will return again. Grateful thanks to those who prepared the delicious tea, served it and cleared up afterwards.In early September Chris Lambert launched this year’s Mustard Seed Relief Mission ‘Love in a Box’ campaign with a moving film of love boxes being opened by children in a hospital and an orphanage in Moldova. Some 600 organisations, including Holy Trinity Barsham, contribute 42,000 gifts to this Christmas campaign. Pre-wrapped boxes with instructions and starter items are now available at the back of the church for our use. There is no need to make a £5 donation towards the cost of transport as Beccles Lions have generously agreed to pay for carriage. The annual Ride and Stride event took place on Saturday 9th September. Many thanks to those who manned the church during the day, receiving 19 riders/striders; and special appreciation and thanks to cyclists Cheryl and Amy, to Sarah Jane, who walked, and Dick who also raised sponsorship. The total raised for the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust and Barsham Church (half each) was more than £700 – details to be confirmed next month. 11 members of the congregation visited St Edmundsbury Cathedral on Sunday 10thSeptember. The visit began with a Reflective Pilgrimage around the Cathedral, led by our guide James, who drew our attention to significant points of interest. Prayers at the font, the Edmund Gates, the quire, and the crossing were led by Diana. Choral Evensong afterwards in the quire included the installation of vicars choral, scholars, and choristers. The beautiful singing was led by a choir of all ages from the Cathedral and Morden College. For some of the youngsters it was their very first formal service in the Cathedral Choir. Bridget read the Old Testament reading. After the service we were entertained to tea in the Cathedral Centre.On Monday 11th September a party from the Beccles Morning WI enjoyed a visit to explore the history of the church which included a walk-and-talk with Robert, entitled ‘Hidden Treasures of Barsham’, and refreshments.Through October Josh will be accompanied around the Benefice by a placement curate, Revd Diane Elkins Powell from the Sancroft Benefice. Diane will sometimes be observing and sometimes participating. We welcome her to Barsham. The August sales table organised by Bridget raised a very useful £85. Barsham PCC gratefully acknowledges a donation of £500. Very many thanks, as always, for the 202 items we sent to the Foodbank in August.FORWARD PLANNINGChoral Evensong for Harvest Festival will be celebrated with The Right Revd Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough at 5.30pm on Sunday 8th October, followed by Harvest Supper in the village hall at 7pm. Tickets for the supper cost £10 and are available from Bridget. All Saints Day will be marked with a celebration of Holy Communion at 10am on Wednesday 1st November at Holy Trinity, Bungay. All welcome.The Commemoration of St Martin will be marked by the celebration of Holy Communion with the Community of All Hallows at 9am on Saturday 11th November at 23 Trinity Street, Bungay. All welcome. SNIPPETS – The Church Organ Like other visiting organists before her, Liz Vennard spoke well of the quality of the Barsham organ. It was designed and built in 1877 by William Hill & Son, one of the leading organ-makers of the day and installed in its current location when the vestry and organ chamber were constructed in 1880. This was in preference to an earlier plan in 1860 to place an organ at the back of the church, where the small window in the north-west corner of the nave was cut to bring light to the area. Our Hill organ was built to accommodate two manuals, but only one was installed initially, perhaps to contain the cost. A second manual was eventually added 127 years later in 2004/5, when the organ was completely refurbished as a Trafalgar Bicentennial Commemoration project. This was financed by an appeal launched under Lady Beecham, widow of celebrated conductor and impresario Sir Thomas Beecham. The new keyboard was constructed using oak that had been afloat on HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and where restoration of the old organ required replacement parts, genuine Hill parts were sourced and installed.William Hill & Son supplied organs for town halls, churches and cathedrals all over England, including Birmingham Town Hall (1832), the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge (1834), Westminster Abbey (1848), Worcester Cathedral (1875) and Peterborough Cathedral (1894). Further afield, Hill organs were installed at St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town and St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney; and the town halls of Melbourne (1872), Adelaide (1877) and Sydney (1890), the last being the largest organ in the world at the time.OCTOBER DIARYSunday 1st October – Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Jonathan Olanczuk.Sunday 8th October – Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. Harvest Festival. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Jonathan Olanczuk.Sunday 8th October – 5.30pm Harvest Festival Choral Evensong. Revd Josh Bailey withThe Right Revd Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough. Sunday 15th October – Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Josh Bailey. Sunday 22nd October – Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Josh Bailey. Sunday 29th October – Last Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Canon John Fellows.Sunday 29th October – 5.30pm Benefice Choral Evensong at Barsham. Revd Josh Bailey.Sunday 5th November – All Saints. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Revd Jonathan Olanczuk.Wednesdays at 8.45am – Matins at Barsham, but not 4th October.Church correspondent: Robert Bacon 07867 306016, robert.bacon@yahoo.co.uk
NEWSWe were delighted to welcome the Rt Revd Dr Mike Harrison, Bishop of Dunwich, to celebrate Eucharist with us on Sunday 16th July. A contingent from Barsham attended the Benefice Choral Evensong at Bungay onSunday 30th July.The Love Boxes team has started to wrap the boxes and the Love Box season will soon be upon us!Annual haymaking took place during a spell of dry weather on the 11th and 12th August and the churchyard now looks splendid. Wasp nests featured this year, and Colin surprised a large grass snake. Huge thanks to those who laboured mightily in extremely humid conditions on the Friday (team photo, front page), to those who joined on the Saturday, and especially to those who toiled so hard on both days. Grateful thanks as well to Chris Bardsley for providing two delicious lunches. In this centenary year of the Suffolk Guild of Ringers a group from its North-East District rang the church bells at Barsham on Saturday 12th August, ringing Plain Bob Doubles and Grandsire Doubles. As for the character of our bells, Kate Gill, Tower Captain at Beccles, described them as ‘a nice country ring’. In addition to ringing, the group held a routine meeting and enjoyed a picnic, before walking to the Locks Inn for further refreshment. This year’s Ride and Stride event takes place on Saturday 9th September. Do sponsor our participants, who are riding or striding in aid of Barsham Church and the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust, which makes grants towards the repair and restoration of churches and chapels. The sales table organised by Jenny for the second consecutive time raised the splendid sum of £100!Barsham PCC gratefully acknowledges a donation of £200 and also donations amounting to £220 from the Hempnall Sunday Walking Group event held on the 30th July. This was a most successful and enjoyable occasion with the Group exploring the byways of Barsham and Ilketshall St Andrew in fine weather; many thanks to Cheryl for her skilled organisation of the ramble and to all who provided the fine fare and beverages for the walkers at their journey’s end.228 items were gratefully received by the Foodbank in July, nearly 100 more items than the previous month. FORWARD PLANNINGThe Right Revd Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough will be joining us for Harvest Evensong and Harvest Supper on Sunday 8th October.SNIPPETS – A Medley of Hymn-writersMost would agree that congregational singing in church is an uplifting experience and small wonder, with so many inspiring tunes and beautifully crafted lyrics. Down the centuries hymnody has attracted eminent composers – in our hymnals at Barsham the likes of Gibbons, JS Bach, Handel, Haydn, Parry, Ireland, Vaughan Williams, Holst – and a high proportion of hymn writers were well-established poets. Many hymnodists, of course, were divines: clerics and theologians. The 17th century Anglican cleric George Herbert, 1593-1633 (‘Let all the world in every corner sing’) was one of the celebrated metaphysical poets. During his short adult life he was also Orator at Cambridge University (ie its official spokesman) and a Member of Parliament. The 18th century Welsh Methodist preacher William Williams, 1717-1791 (‘Guide me, O Thou Great Redeemer’), was one of the great literary figures of Welsh language prose and poetry. In the following century, Frederick William Faber, 1814-1863 (‘There’s a wideness in God’s mercy’), was a friend of William Wordsworth and wrote both secular and sacred poetry. An Anglo-Catholic priest, he followed John Henry Newman into the Catholic Church and was one of the founders and the first Provost of the London Oratory.Some hymnodists were more than clerics. Cyril Argentine Alington, 1872-1955 (‘Ye that know The Lord is gracious’), was a prolific writer of poetry as well as biography, history, religion, and fiction, including detective stories. He was successively Headmaster of Shrewsbury School, Head Master at Eton, Chaplain to George V and Dean of Durham Cathedral. John Raphael Peacey, 1896-1971 (‘Tell out my soul’), was a missionary and headmaster in India and latterly a Canon of Bristol Cathedral. Earlier, as an army officer, he had won a Military Cross during the First World War and afterwards played first class cricket for Sussex. Several well-known hymnodists were involved in the campaign for the abolition of slavery. The American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 (‘Dear Lord and Father of mankind’), was a passionate abolitionist campaigner. John Newton, 1725-1807 (‘Amazing Grace’; ‘Glorious things of Thee are spoken’), spent some years as a slave trader before his Christian conversion, ordination, and work as an abolitionist. He recruited to the cause his friend William Cowper, 1731-1800 (‘O for a closer walk with God’), hymnodist and one of the most popular English poets of the 18th century. The Anglican parish priest and poet Henry Francis Lyte, 1793-1847 (‘Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven’; ‘Abide with me’), was a friend of William Wilberforce and in 1833 petitioned Parliament to abolish slavery in the British Empire. There were, of course, lay hymnodists too, and women are prominent amongst them. In the 19th century Charlotte Elliott, 1789-1871 (‘Just as I am’), wrote popular humorous verse and was a successful portrait artist before turning to hymn-writing and producing about 150 hymns. In more recent times, Eleanor Farjeon, 1881-1965 (‘Morning has broken’), was a poet, playwright, children’s author, biographer, historian, satirist, journalist and broadcaster. The agnostic Jan Struther, 1901-1953 (‘Lord of all hopefulness’; ‘When a knight won his spurs’) wrote for Punch magazine and was a Times columnist and radio quiz panellist. Amongst the men, William Whiting, 1825-1878 (‘Eternal Father strong to save’), was a secular poet and the Master of Quiristers (choristers) at Winchester College. James Edmeston, 1791-1867 (‘Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us’) is said to have written some 2,000 hymns. He was an architect and surveyor as well as a poet and one of his architecture pupils was George Gilbert Scott, the great Gothic Revival architect. In the 20th century Robert Bridges, 1844-1930 (‘All my hope on God is founded’) practised as a medical doctor and was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930.As this small sample demonstrates, the heritage within the pages of our hymn books is rich indeed and, for me at least, this enhances the glory of hymn singing.SEPTEMBER DIARYSunday 27th August – Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Rev Josh Bailey.Sunday 3rd September – Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Rev Jonathan Olanczuk.Sunday 10th September – Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Rev Jonathan Olanczuk.Sunday 17th September – Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Rev Canon John Fellows with Archdeacon Sally Gaze, Archdeacon of Rural Mission in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.Sunday 24th September – Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Rev Josh Bailey with Revd Canon Rich Henderson, Archdeacon of Suffolk.Sunday 1st October – Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). RevJonathan Olanczuk.Wednesdays at 8.45am – Matins at Barsham, but not 27th Sept and 4th Oct.Church correspondent: Robert Bacon 07867 306016, robert.bacon@yahoo.co.uk
NEWSMany congratulations to Hannah Spooner and Tim Futter on their marriage at Barsham Church on the 17th June in the presence of more than 100 guests. Congratulations to Josh on his licensing as Rural Dean by Archdeacon Rich Henderson on the 13th June. Barsham was well represented at the service. In Deanery news, the Revd Russell Gant has been appointed as Team Rector of the Sole Bay Team Ministry and will start in September. It is hoped to appoint a successor to Rich Henderson at Beccles in September.Thanks to the kind invitation and warm hospitality of Nick and Jenny Caddick, 70 people enjoyed the Summer Lunch at St Bartholomew’s, Shipmeadow on the 5th July. Huge thanks to those who helped in the planning, the provision and preparation of food and drink, in running the raffle, and setting up and clearing. We were delighted to welcome the Rt Revd Dr Mike Harrison, Bishop of Dunwich, to celebrate Eucharist with us at Barsham on Sunday 16th July.Volunteers to help with the annual Haymaking in the churchyard on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th August are eagerly sought. Come for whatever time and energy you can spare! Bring a rake if you have one. A delicious ploughman’s lunch is kindly provided on both days by Chris Bardsley. The June sales table organised by Jenny yielded a very useful £100. Sarah Jane’s continued endeavours to find homes for the legacy bears resulted in an additional £243 of sales in June, bringing the cumulative total for bear sales to a remarkable £2,834. The summer lunch raised £1,052 towards church funds.133 items were contributed to the Foodbank in June. FORWARD PLANNINGCheryl is organising and leading a walk for the Hempnall Church walking group from Barsham church on Sunday 30th July, starting at 2pm and anyone is welcome to join. The walk will take about 2 hours at a leisurely pace, with tea at the church afterwards. Well-behaved dogs are welcome. There is no charge. A group from the Suffolk Guild of Ringers will be ringing the church bells at Barshamfrom 2pm until 6pm on Saturday 12th August.There will be an organ recital by Liz Vennard at Barsham Church at 3pm on Saturday 19th August. The recital will last for about an hour, followed by a fabulous Barsham tea. Tickets are not required and there is no entrance charge, butdonations towards the running of the church will be very much appreciated. Tour, tea and Evensong at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Sunday 10th September, 1.45–5pm. Places can still be booked through Bridget. Archdeacon Sally Gaze, Archdeacon of Rural Mission in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich will be visiting preacher on Sunday 17th September.The Revd Canon Rich Henderson, Archdeacon of Suffolk, will be officiating at our Sunday service on 24th September. The Right Revd Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough will join us for Harvest Evensong and Harvest Supper on Sunday 8th October.SNIPPETS – The Church BellsFor centuries bells have rung from church towers to summon the faithful to church and to celebrate special occasions, including recently at Barsham a quarter peal for the King’s Coronation. All five of Barsham’s bells will be in action again in August, this time with the Suffolk Guild of Ringers (see above), so it may be of interest to know a little about our bells. The oldest was cast in Norwich in the early 16th century and is broadly contemporary with the building of the top section of the tower at Barsham. It is tempting to speculate that this bell may even have been commissioned for the new belfry. It was probably the single bell extant at Barsham when Alfred Suckling described the church in his History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk in 1846, though he noted that there had previously been three bells ‘at no very distant period’. Four more bells were added half a century later by the then patron, the Rev’d RAJ Suckling (1842-1917), all of them cast in 1893 and installed in 1894. Suckling dedicated two of them to the prominent Anglo-Catholic priests, Charles Lowder (1820-1880) and Alexander Mackonochie (1825-1887), both of them so-called ‘slum priests’: mission priests working in the poorest slum areas of the East End of London. They were brave men, pursuing their work in the face of violent opposition from the deeply entrenched vested interests of the East End vice trades, as well as persecution from members of the Low Church Establishment in both Church and State, who found their ritualist practices and teachings too close to Roman Catholicism. Violent mobs were hired to disrupt their services, bishops were unhelpful or obstructive, and Lowder and Mackonochie were persecuted through the courts. Ultimately however, they won admiration for their exemplary pastoral work in the slums, establishing schools, soup kitchens, working men’s clubs, mothers’ groups and clothing funds. In 1866 Lowder became the founding vicar of St Peter’s London Dock, and in the cholera outbreak of that year he and his associates distinguished themselves by their heroic and selfless care of the poor, who came to address Lowder as ‘Father’ – the first Anglican priest to be so called. Lowder was also renowned as one of the principal founders and the first Master of the Society of the Sacred Cross, founded in 1855. An Anglo-Catholic society of priests living under a common rule, the Society became a major driving force in the Anglo-Catholic Revival. Mackonochie was Lowder’s curate at St Peter’s London Dock, before going on to become perpetual curate of the Anglo-Catholic church of St Alban the Martyr, Holborn. The Anglo-Catholic RAJ Suckling would follow in the wake of Lowder and Mackonochie, exchanging the gentle Rectory at Barsham for the tough world of the mission priest, first at St Peter’s London Dock (1880) and then in succession to Mackonochie at St Alban the Martyr (1882), after the latter had been driven out by persecution. A memorial to Mackonochie, at one time behind the high altar at St Alban the Martyr, now graces the south wall of our Lady Chapel. A third bell is dedicated to the Rev’d John Yelloly, RAJ Suckling’s uncle and his predecessor as Rector of Barsham, who died in 1892 – the year before the bells were cast. Finally, the tenor bell commemorates Captain Maurice Suckling, RN (1726-1778), who was the son of the Rev’d Maurice Suckling, mid-18th century Rector of Barsham, and brother of Catherine Suckling, mother of Horatio Nelson. A celebrated fighting captain in the Seven Years War, Maurice Suckling gave the young Nelson his first taste of seafaring and later, as Comptroller of the Navy, assisted Nelson in his early promotion. His burial at Barsham is recorded on his father’s ledger stone in the sanctuary.AUGUST DIARYSunday 30th July – Eighth Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). RevJonathan Olanczuk.Sunday 30th July – Benefice Evensong, Holy Trinity Bungay. 6.30pm Choral Evensong. Rev Josh Bailey.Sunday 6th August – Ninth Sunday after Trinity. Transfiguration of our Lord. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Rev Jonathan Olanczuk.Sunday 13th August – Tenth Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Rev Canon John Fellows.Sunday 20th August – Eleventh Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Rev Josh Bailey.Sunday 27th August – Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. 11am Sung Eucharist (BCP). Rev Josh Bailey.Wednesdays at 8.45am – Matins at Barsham.Church correspondent: Robert Bacon 07867 306016, robert.bacon@yahoo.co.uk
