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Church History
1545 the chancel is added
1853 the chancel is enlarged
1870/71 and again in 1891 the chancel is restored
1908 Mrs Money Coutts gives a new moulded chancel arch
1625 the pulpit is made as a copy of one in Kelsale
originally there would have been three decks
George Crabbe, the famous poet and once apprentice to an apothecary here,
preaches from it.
Crabbe is the author of The Borough, from which Benjamin Britten takes the story of Peter Grimes. Now Britten sits opposite Crabbe.
The window by John Piper is dedicated in June 1980 at the opening of the 33rd Aldeburgh Festival as a memorial to Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)
for in poetry and speech, in preaching and in prayer, is
to be found the life of the Spirit