footnotes David Mills is the deputy
editor of First Tings. Fr Michael Wood
(pictured) is the Superior of the St Petroc Monastery, in
Cascades, Tasmania, and head of the St Eanswythe Orthodox Western Rite Mission, in Christchurch, Dorset.
Fr John Hunwicke SSC is the Priest-
in-Charge of St Tomas the Martyr, Oxford, and compiler of the Ordo; his learned commentary on things liturgical can be found at
Alan Edwards is a bookseller in
Whitstaple, and the ND football correspondent atached to AFC Wimbledon.
Fr Ed Tomlinson SSC is
the Vicar of St Barnabas, Royal Tunbridge Wells, and his ‘vague ramblings’ can be read on
T o m Sutclif fe is a noted o p e r a
critic as well as a lay member of the General Synod; his opera website is
It was a nervous
time in the Diocese of Derby on Monday, 21 June. Back in 2005, the cathedral appointed a
touching place N
orfolk and Suffolk aren’t the same, despite what outsiders
may think. When you spot the colour-washed houses, you know you’ve reached the Suffolk border, and there are architectural features in the churches that act as tell-tales too, as if the River Waveney acted as a cultural barrier. Drive up past some of those painted houses and note the give-aways in the tower – its rich flushwork; the absence of the ‘sound-holes’ so characteristic of 15th c. Norfolk towers; the prominent double windows in the belfry stage. This tower was going up when Robert Goodwyn bequeathed ‘to the newe stepyll of Mendylsham iiis iiijd’ in his will of 1490, the epoch when the villagers of Mendlesham rebuilt a 13th–14th c. church, giving it two fine porches (the chamber above the N porch holds the best collection of 15th–17th c. armour in the land). And what would a medieval inhabitant of Mendlesham think, if miraculously transported forward to 2010? He would admire the holy water stoup in the N porch, actually
new dean, Martin Kitchen; he lasted a year, before taking another year to vacate the deanery aſter a substantial pay-off. In 2008 another dean, Jeff Cutell, lasted litle over a year before departing. On 21 June, the next dean, John Davies, was announced. Only for the email announcement to be withdrawn aſter four minutes. Latest rumours suggest he may hang on – we wish him well.
Prayer Vigils for the General
Synod Debate on Women Bishop’s Legislation are taking place across the country, supported by FiF, Watch, SCP, MCU, Affirming Catholicism, Reform, and others. Ripon Cathedral: Friday 9 July, from 10.00 to 14.00.
Newcastle Cathedral: Sat 10 July, from 09.00 to 12.30.
Guildford Cathedral: Sat 10 July, from 12.00 to 14.00.
And because we like
pictures, another one of the late Miss Dahl (p. 25). ND
St Mary’s, Mendlesham
a font rescued from derelict Rishangles. The interior would provide surprises; no wall paintings, no screens, and what is that altar doing at the east end of the nave? The Jacobean font cover and pulpit, both made in 1630 by John Turner, a local carpenter, would also be novel. But the religion would be familiar, with lots of altars, statues, votive lights and medieval pews, some of the latter from Rishangles too, as the thorough makeover in recent years makes Mendlesham defy the passing centuries. Jesus said,
‘Therefore every scribe
which is
instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old’ [Matt. 13.52].
Simon Cotton July 2010 ■ newdirections ■ 35
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