Place of Worship

825 years ago, King John  24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216 (you’ll remember him: the bad king in Robin Hood’s day) was short of money. He had only been king for a year but the economy was in a mess. There were wars to fight, barons to bribe and appearances to keep up. What’s […]

A long time ago, when Raedwald and his kin at Sutton Hoo ruled these parts, the Anglo-Saxon traders established a settlement, or wick, on the north bank of the River Gipping. Those were the days when the old Norse gods, growing tired and grey, were losing their lustre and it was not long before some […]