The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, August 2nd, 1911.

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We motored with Sir Peile & Miles to Kedington, where we visited an interesting but very dilapidated Church. It contained several fine monuments of the Barnardiston family: a Jacobean pulpit with hour glass attached on a stand: a fine screen of the 14th century forming one side of a large pew: a screen across the chancel: early 18th century (or late 17th) communion rails north & south as well as west of the Holy Table: many carved XVth century benches: a fine XIVth century chest: & a fine open timber roof. The Incumbent, Canon Perry, was in the Church, brushing hassocks. A small old fresh coloured, sharp–tongued man, who resented suggestions as to his church (of which he complained that he had many), & seemed to exult in its dilapidation.

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