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