St. Mary’s Church Badwell Ash The earliest records for the priests in charge of St. Mary’s date back to 1338, during the reign of Edward […]
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St. Mary’s Churchyard and Richer Road Churchyard Extension Headstone and Tomb Research – 2022
No written grave records exist for the burials in either the Churchyard surrounding St. Mary’s Church or oldest part of The Churchyard Extension, dating from […]
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William Hovell 1715 – 1769 “…a Doctor of Physick”
William is the oldest memorial/grave inside the church. William was related to Rollo, the first Norman Lord of Normandy in the C1 and his descendants have been traced as far as New Zealand.
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St. Mary’s Church Badwell Ash
“What would you be, you wide East Anglian sky, Without church towers to recognise you by” John Betjeman A Brief History There was possibly an […]
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BBC Radio Suffolk Interview : Howard
BBC Radio Suffolk’s Lesley Dolphin discusses the history of Badwell Ash and interviews Howard Newman from Badwell Ash History Society. Download mp3
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Clock Restoration in Progress
Photographs taken by Karl Hort during the Restoration of the Turret Clock 2016 – 2017
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Photos of St. Mary’s
These rare black and white negative of photographs of St. Mary’s Church, Badwell Ash, have recently been discovered
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Clock Restoration at Haward Horological
Ian Haward of Haward Horological explains how the turret clock will be restored
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Aerial views of Badwell Ash
Videos and photographs of Badwell Ash St. Mary’s Church taken from a drone
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St. Mary’s Church Turret Clock
The Turret Clock in the tower at St. Mary’s is believed to have been made in the late C17, around 1680. This was either during […]
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