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                           REV. HURRION RUSHMER                        REV. RUSSELL                                     REV. EVES

      

                                                     REV. ALEC STEWART                    CAPTAIN RUPERT LONGSDALE

                                                                           ONE TIME VICAR OF THIS PARISH.

                                                                           ALSO A CAPTAIN OF A SUBMARINE

                                                                          THAT HAD TO SURRENDER TO SAVE HIS MEN

 

                       

    HENRY GREEF CC 1980S                                    PRE 1926. BEFORE THE DESECRATION OF THE CHURCHYARD. ALSO JUST

                                                                                   AS  THE YEW HEDGE WAS PLANTED, SEE SMALL PLANTS ALONG PATH 


 

                       


 

   

   

THE FIVE PICTURES BETWEEN THE TWO RED LINES, WHERE TAKEN APPROXIMATELY 1914


   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

                                                                      

 

                                                      

                                                  

                                                 

                 

       

       

                                                                                      

    

       

       

       

       

       

         

ADMIRALS FLAG        BISHOP'S CHAIR              DECORATED FONT BELIEVED TO BE IN 1960s

       

          EASTER GARDEN 1960s                     FLOWERS 1960s                       FLOWER FESTIVAL 60s OR 70s

                  

 THE NAVE                            LECTERN                       THE PULPIT YEAR OF ORIGIN 1632

       

   THE ORGAN                    FLAGS & BELL FROM         FRANK BRADBEER'S PIANO.  DONATED AFTER HIS DEATH

                                                 THORNHAM

   

                            HIGH ALTER                                                                        THORNHAM MILL

       

                            LADY CHAPEL

       

                                                        TAPESTRY                                                    THE NAVE

   

     

                                                                                    HIGH ALTER

        

                                    SOUTH DOOR                        DOOR TO ABOVE PORCH                NORTH DOOR

THESE TWO PICTURES TAKEN ON MONDAY 10 TH AUGUST 2009

SHOWING THE THE CHANCEL AND THE NAVE WITHOUT THE SCREEN

THE PURISTS AMONGST US WILL SHOUT ME DOWN BUT I ACTUALLY THINK THE CHURCH

LOOKS BETTER WITHOUT THE SCREEN

DEATH WATCH BEETLE

SOMETHING YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE IN

THORNHAM

 

LAST BUT BY NO MEANS LEAST

MY FATHER NEVER LIKED ANYTHING NEW.

WHEN THE LIGHTING WAS CHANGED IN THE CHURCH,

DID HE MOB &  AS A RESULT "HENRY'S SWITCH " WAS BORN, TO

ASSIST HIM WHEN LOCKING UP THE CHURCH.

JUST HOW MANY HE LOCKED IN THE CHURCH WE WILL NEVER KNOW

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