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The Restoration of Blythburgh Church | 1881 PROSPECTUS. JJ)J!> ~ I Concerning @_~ Blythburgh Church / One of the Fmest Specimens of Gothic ,-Arch itecture in the County falling to pieces 'ror want of £3,000. BLYTHBURGH CHURC H . BU I LT A. D. 1460. lhyE ,·u,<rC.-41,,J/.A. RESTORATION COMMITTEE. Palroness. H R.H. THE PRINCESS LOU I SE, DUC HE SS OF ARGYLL The Bishop of Norwich S it• Caspar Purdon Clarke, C.S. I., F.S .A. The Archdeacon of Suffolk Sir August.us Helder, M. P. Rev. Canon Raven, R.O. E. Crofts, Esq., RA., F.S.A . The Vicar of Blythburgh L_uke Fildes, R.A. Lady Blois C. F. Egerton, Esq. Mrs. Seymour Lucas J. Seymou r Lucas, Esq. , R.A., F.S.A. Mrs. Egerton Carmichael Thomas, Esq. Mrs. Hamilton Norman Graham, Esq. Sir Ralph Blois , Bart., Lord of the Manor H on , The first page of the 1905 appeal prospectus , illustrated by Ernest Crofts RA, a Blythburgh resident, and listing the eminent restoration committee. BCP, Blue Scrap Book THE RESTORATIONOF BLYTHBURGH CHURCH 1881- 1906 THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANCIENT BUILDINGS AND THE BLYTHBURGH CHURCH RESTORATION COMMITTEE Edited by ALAN MACKLEY General Editor RICHARJ) HALSEY The Boydell Press Suffolk Records Society VOLUMELX © The Trustees of the Suffolk Records Society 2017 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner A Suffolk Records Society publication First published 2017 The Boydell Press, Woodbridge ISBN 978-1-78327-167-2 Issued to subscribing members for the year 2016-17 The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and ofBoydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620-2731, USA website: www.boydellandbrewer.com The publisher has no responsibility for the continued existence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain , accurate or appropriate A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This publication is printed on acid-free paper MIX Paper from responsible sources FSC- C013056 CONTENTS List of illustrations Vlll Preface and acknowledgements X Abbreviations Xll INTRODUCTION xiii Editorial practice lv Glossary lvi THE DOCUMENTS 1 Correspondence 3 2 Restoration Committee Minute Book 137 3 Churchwardens' Accounts 157 APPENDICES A Architects' and Contractors' Reports and Costs, 1881-1950 165 B Appeals and Donations 211 C Printed Notices, Reports and Articles . 235 D Notes on People 273 Bibliography 289 Index of people and places 295 Index of subjects 310 The Suffolk Records Society 315 Vil ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece 'Concerning Blyth burgh Church.' The front page of the 1905 Restoration Appeal leaflet Colour plates between pages 20 and 21 I An aerial view ofBlythburgh church in the early 1970s II Blythburgh church interior in the early nineteenth century by Isaac Johnson, early 1830s III St Bartholomew and St Helen in window glass, watercolours by Hamlet Watling IV The church from the south-east in the mid nineteenth century from Suckling, 1847 V North aisle in the mid nineteenth century from Suckling, 1847 VI Plan for the restoration of aisle and nave roofs by A.E. Street, 1884 VII Surviving fifteenth-century work in the church roof photographed by Alan Mackley VIII St Andrew's, Covehithe, and St Andrew's, Walberswick, photographed by Alan Mackley Black and white plates 1 'Blythburgh Church Restoration.' The front page of the 1882 Restoration Appeal leaflet xv 2 Nave and chancel in the 1870s before restoration xvi 3 East chapel in the north aisle in the 1870s before removal of stalls to chancel xxii 4 South aisle in the 1870s showing box pews and whitewashed screen before restoration xx1v 5 Exterior of the church after restoration of south aisle windows and before repair of porch, 1900 xiii 6 Visitors' book, August 1899 xlvi 7 Sketch of proposed work on south porch by Alfred Powell, 1904 99 8 Restoration Committee Minute Book, with criticism by the Revd Henry Sykes of the reports of 1882 bazaar 144 V111 ILLUSTRATIONS 9 Restoration Committee Minute Book, Building Committee meeting, 7 April 1884, recording retirement of Sir John and Lady Blois from the committee 154 10 Churchwardens' Accounts for 1881-2, the year in which the church was closed 160 11 Plan ofBlythburgh church by E.W. Lees, 1900 184 12 Measured longitudinal section from the south by E.W. Lees, 1900 185 13 Sketch by William Weir, 1906, explaining criticism of work done to strengthen tie beams 198 14 Collecting card produced by the restoration committee, 1881 215 Map Map of Suffolk, showing location ofBlythburgh and seats of landed families acting as patrons of appeals liv ix PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The origin of this volume lies in a letter from Norman Kelvin, professor of English, The City University of New York, written in 1992 to the then vicar of Blyth burgh, the Revd Harry Edwards. Professor Kelvin, editor of The Collected Letters of William Morris (4 volumes, Princeton University Press, 1984-2014), referred to a visit made by Morris to Blythburgh church in 1895 and wished to identify the incumbent. I replied on the vicar's behalf, providing some information about the vicar of Blythburgh at that time, the Revd Thomas Oakes. Coincidentally I had just visited the British Architectural Library and in the journal The Architect had noticed serendipitously a letter from the secretary of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) to another Blythburgh vicar in 1883. The society and the local building committee were clearly at loggerheads over the restoration of the church. Later, Professor Kelvin told me that the SPAB library was a potentially rich source on the subject of Blythburgh church restoration . I visited the library in 1995 and copied the nearly 250 documents in the Blythburgh boxes. The first use of this material was at the behest of The Blythburgh Society when Owen Thompson wrote an article for the Suffolk Review, 'The Rev. Henry Sykes and the restoration of Blythburgh church: late Victorian church restoration', 31 (1998), pp. 2-15 . Owen Thompson also used related documents held by Suffolk Record Office at Ipswich. Achieving the marriage of the SPAB and Suffolk documents has been a slow pro­ cess, with many diversions along the way. I wish to thank the council of the Suffolk Records Society for accepting my proposal and its general editor, Richard Halsey MBE, for his guidance on content and the shape required by the society. Thanks are due to the staffs of the SPAB library, the Norfolk and Suffolk Record Offices, and the library of the University of East Anglia. Institutions and individuals that have responded to my requests for help include the libraries of the City University London, Clare College Cambridge, the RIBA, Peterborough Cathedral, the Institution of Civil Engineers, Lambeth Palace and Ruskin College Oxford. I am also grateful to James Bettley, Alan Greening, David Lindley and Oliver Henderson Smith. There was a most unexpected and welcome communication from Rose Sanguinetti, granddaugh­ ter of the influential Blythburgh churchwarden Claude Egerton. She gave me infor­ mation about the family that I could not have found elsewhere. Living in Blythburgh has added to the pleasure of my research. The names of the places and people in this volume still resonate today. The churchwardens, Jenny Allen and Thomas Lond-Caulk , and the Revds Joan Lyon and Malcom Doney pro­ vided valuable support when I exposed a late draft ofmy introduction to public gaze. And I thank my wife Ursula for her tolerance when, having removed from our house an eighteenth-century family, the subject of an earlier publication, I repopulated it with a feuding nineteenth-century group that seemed to demand my attention even more. X PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to the SPAB, the Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich, and the church­ wardens and parochial church council of Holy Trinity, Blythburgh, for permission to publish their documents . The Suffolk Records Society acknowledges with thanks grants from the Blythburgh Society and the Remembering Blythburgh Project; also the Adnams Community Trust for a grant to cover the cost of the colour plates in this volume. Alan Mackley Blythburgh, May 2016 Xl ABBREVIATIONS Bt Baronet , a member of the lowest hereditary order BCP Blythburgh Church Papers Crockford Crockford's Clerical Directory CWA Blythburgh churchwardens ' accounts FSA Fellow ofthe Society of Antiquaries of London IJ Ipswich Journal ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography PSIAH Proceedings of the Siiffolk Institute of Archaeology and History RCMB Blythburgh church restoration committee minute book RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects SPAB Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings SROI Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich branch VMB Blythburgh vestry minute book Unless otherwise stated, the place of publication is London. For Suffolk places, the county name has not been included. Xll INTRODUCTION The Church's Restoration In eighteen-eighty -three Has left for contemplation Not what there used to be. John Betjeman, 'Hymn', Mount Zion (1932) in Collected Poems (1958) Blythburgh is a small village in northeast Suffolk, with some 300 inhabitants, situated on the river Blyth, four miles inland from the sea at Southwold. It is renowned for its grand parish church, which from its prominent location overlooking the marshes has for centuries been a beacon for travellers on the road from London to Yarmouth. The church has a fifteenth-century nave and chancel, with a notable painted ceiling with carved angels, and an older tower.
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