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Church History

In 1865 or 1870 the organ is built and installed at west end of nave,  behind a wooden screen, and what is now the west porch becomes the choir vestry at some point.   

The organ replaces what may have been a minstrel band (see Thomas Hardy for a good description of a village church minstrel band in a gallery!).   

1864  the organ is moved to its present position in the north aisle, and occupies what was the chapel of St Clement & St Catherine.

The organ is rebuilt and enlarged in 1903 further squashing the font!

Between 1883-1888 the south aisle roof is restored

in 1891 a new heating system is installed and

it replaces stoves in the nave

the South Porch is built as the main entrance of the church in 1537

and in 1899 the new south doors are in use for the first time.

In that same year there is a gale from the East which is dead on shore when the lifeboat Aldeburgh is launched to a vessel off the Sunk Light on 7th

December 1899

but broadside seas capsize the boat – it lands upside down and six are trapped underneath.

James Miller Ward floats out unconscious but cannot be revived; desperate efforts to break open the keel fail and five die.   Allan Arthur Easter dies on 24th March 1900 as a result of his injuries.  

Their graves are snow-covered at the funeral

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