The Portal November 2014 | Page 14

THE P RTAL November 2014 UK Pages - page 14 Thoughts on Newman Cranmer and Newman Dr Stephen Morgan on English music and prose in East Anglia On an early autumn attempt at what had been an elusive summer holiday and armed with trusty Pevsner, I dragged my poor dear wife around a series of magnificent town and village churches across that quietly charming county, Suffolk. One such day brought Framlingham and its lovely painting of the Trinity; Bildeston, a mile away from the village and with a rectors’ board on which the accessions of Mary, Elizabeth I and William and Mary were readily discernible; Hadleigh, with its rectory within whose portals the idea which bec