Parish Magazine September 2022

Parish Magazine: September 2022

• The power of helping others, page 3
• New service at Rougham Church, page 6
• Cover story: Rod to the rescue! page 9
• More Hessett treasures, page 14
• Hessett’s Harvest celebration page 22
• Praying for the rain! page 24
• Poet’s corner, pages 26
• Sunday Services, back page

The Parish Churches of
Rougham, Beyton

with Hessett and Rushbrooke

The Benefice is now in a period of Vacancy. There is no Rector
and it may take some time before a new appointment is made.

During the vacancy we are building a new team of people to
cover different aspects of our church life.

There are some tasks we would like to cover – if you can help
please contact Graham Rendle.

Details of Church services are on the back cover.

SuNday SeRviCeS
The Rev’d Graham Rendle
01359 270924 [email protected]

WeddiNgS, BaPTiSMS, fuNeRalS aNd aNy oTHeR RequeSTS
Rural Dean Tiffer Robinson

01449 737197 [email protected]
Archdeacon of Sudbury Dr David Jenkins
01284 386942 | 07900 990073 [email protected]

Beyton Church/vestry Diane Rendle 01359 270924
BeNefiCe CHuRCH WaRdeNS

Hessett Tim Elliot 01359 270365 Tony Ciorra 01359 272685
Rougham Di Ruddock 01359 270731 David Palmer 01284 386108

Beyton Vacant Rushbrooke Church Richard Ball 01359 232088
Bell Tower Captain Maurice Rose 01359 270298
Home visits (as allowed) Position vacant

Hospital visits (as allowed) Graham Rendle 01359 270924
Rougham Floodlights Di Ruddock 01359 270731
Beyton Floodlights Diane Rendle 01359 270924
Hessett Floodlights Diane Rendle 01359 270924
PCC Treasurer Ed Bacon 01359 270926
PCC Secretary Peter Rutt 01359 242464
Choir Ros Pitcher 01359 271997

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Much to be thankful for...
but much to do to help others

Dear Rougham, Beyton, Hessett and Rushbrooke parishioners,
Here we are with September approaching– and hopefully cooling down
after a hot summer both in temperature, economy and politics, with a
new UK Prime Minister due on the 5th of the month. The war in Ukraine
is still raging and asylum seekers are still attempting to cross the channel
in their hundreds every day.

Nearer to home more and more families are struggling to feed their
families and it should be our Christian response – if we are able – to feed
the hungry. To this end Pantry in the Porch has been set up in the south
porch of Rougham Church and is available for all who need it 24/7 to
collect supplies of non-perishable food.

In our church calendar it is a quiet time but we are looking forward to
celebrating harvest. Few of us are involved directly in farming these days.
When I was a boy after school and a quick tea, the whole family would
go out and help put up the sheaves of corn into stooks anticipating the
arrival of the traction engine and the big red threshing machine. What
took weeks then, is now done in hours or days by huge machines.

The dry summer has taken its toll on our gardens but we have a lot to
be thankful for in our quiet villages – good neighbours and friends. If you
have prayer requests or know of anyone especially in need then please
let me or a church member know.

Every Blessing,
graham Rendle

THuRSToN eveNiNg Wi

Members and visitors are welcome to our meetings on
the first Thursday each month (usually!), 7.30pm at
Cavendish Hall, Thurston.

September 1: Beachcombing on our coast, Kate Osborne, Beach Bonkers
october 6: “Knickers” All about underwear, Lisa Jones

For more information, please contact Vicky Pryke on 01359 231465.
You are most welcome to join us!

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The Parish Churches of
Rougham, Beyton

with Hessett and Rushbrooke

If you have any Safeguarding concerns, please contact either the
Rural Dean or our Parish Safeguarding Officer
(Sarah Lock 01359 271877).
Policies and Diocesan contacts may be found at
www.cofesuffolk.org/safeguarding

Details of our church services for the month and contact details
can also be found on the ‘A Church Near You’ website
www.acny.org.uk
Beyton Church now has its own website
www.allsaintsbeyton.co.uk

If you have a prayer request or would like someone
from the church to call on you or would appreciate help in some

practical way, please contact Graham Rendle or any of the
church members listed above. We would be pleased to
pray for you and help in any way that we can.

Alternatively you can use one of the “prayer boxes” outside
each of our church buildings: simply write your prayer.

Magazine
The editor of the Parish Magazine is Jonathan Wilson though the

email address remains the same [email protected]

The deadline for contributions is the second Sunday of the month
for the following month’s issue.

The magazine is published monthly except for
december & January and July & august
which are joint editions.

Advertising: Peter Pitcher 01359 271997

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Located in a picturesque rural se ng adjacent Do you have a child due to start Primary
to St Mary’s Church. School in September 2023?
Then we invite you to a end
Email: [email protected] our open morning!
Tel: 01359 270288
As well as having an opportunity to meet
our Recep on Teacher and chat to some of
our pupils, you will also get to see all the

wonderful facili es we have to o er!

Wednesday 19th October 2022
9.30am—11am

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We are starting a new style of
monthly service at Rougham Church

in September and would love it
if you can join us.

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Rougham

Sunday 18th September,
9.30am

Breakfast treats from 9.30am,
service starts at 10am

Balloons will be
provided!!!

This is a service for all ages, and everyone
will be very welcome. A breakfast of

bacon butties, croissants or toast will be
served from 9.30am before a short, simple
but traditional service starting at 10am.

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Rod to the rescue!

St Nicholas’ Church, Rushbrooke is the smallest of our benefice churches
and the least supported but it is a unique and fascinating building which we
try to maintain for worship in the village, writes Graham Rendle.

Unfortunately the ravages of time and ivy have damaged the flint wall
surrounding the churchyard.

Rod Scott, long-time resident of Beyton and one-time councillor is a man
who is familiar with some of the nearly forgotten skills. Some years ago he
spent weeks avoiding the traffic to repair the long flint wall at All Saints’
Beyton. Rod along with Andy Corpe have just spent several days repairing
the wall at Rushbrooke.

One of the problems over the years is that well-meaning ‘repairers’ using
modern cement have caused
damage to the structure together
and with the ivy growing in and
displacing the stones.

One section had a hole nearly a
metre square. This has now been
skilfully repaired at very little cost as
Rod donated his services to the
church. We are very grateful for all
the work that has done.

Do go and look at this lovely little
church and join us on the first
Sunday of the month at 9am when
we celebrate Holy Communion from
the Book of Common Prayer.

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and have experience singing soprano, alto, tenor or
bass. Rehearsals will begin in September in All Saint’s
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Build up pension pots in

Heaven, not on earth

Reverend Canon Tiffer Robinson on our legacies

Like many others, we discovered our garden during lockdown. We’d always
known it was there, and I had mowed the lawn, but it wasn’t until I was forced
to use it as my only outdoor space, (and later as a place for meetings), that
I really started to give thanks for having such a space, and to enjoy actually
trying to improve it. We made a woodland path, mowed a labyrinth into the
lawn, and finally sorted the weeds, at least enough to make sure you can
walk along the side path.

Now that we are moving, I have to cut everything back, and leave it in the
situation we found it in a decade ago. This is impossible of course, because
my predecessor Liz and her husband were keen gardeners, and the people
who rented the house between them and us were professional gardeners,
and it was all spotless when we arrived. We made no promises to keep it
that way! I really dislike pulling out beautiful flowers (which are technically
weeds, but I think that’s very much in the eye of the beholder!) and chopping
branches that birds have been sitting on, but that’s what we have to do! The
nice people at the recycling centre are getting used to seeing me these days.

While I tear out foliage with my bare hands I’ve been reflecting a bit on
legacy: certainly some of the plants I am still fighting with were planted by
previous inhabitants, and we’ve continued to enjoy the mint and rosemary
despite our mismanagement. I inherited a beautiful garden and four well
maintained churches with a lot of life and potential, and I wonder what I am
handing over to the next Rector, whoever she or he might be. Are the
churches healthier than when I arrived, or less healthy, or about the same?
How about if I count numerically, financially, or spiritually? What is it that I
want my legacy to be? If I’m honest, I swing a bit between feeling like I’ve
been a total failure, or I’ve done marvellously well! Then I think: maybe it’s
actually about what God has been doing, and not how I’ve done at all. Then
I worry that’s a total copout!

I suspect in your working and family lives you’ve all left good and bad
legacies behind, and there are stories you tell yourself about the impact
you’ve had in the world. I once went to the funeral of a friend’s father, a
wealthy lawyer who died around retirement age. His funeral was lovely, but
the tribute was all about what very nice cars he had owned, and how much

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money he had earnt. It was actually very sad, that the main thing he was
remembered for by his friends was what he had earnt, and spent. It reminds
me of the parable Jesus told, about a farmer who decided he wanted to
retire, so spent all his energy building larger and larger barns to store his
crops, and the moment they were finished, he died! Jesus told the parable
to tell his followers to build up pension pots in heaven rather than on earth:
to love people, to tell people about Jesus, to care for people, and in so doing
to build up the Kingdom of God, which will outlast all other kingdoms.

There is a line from the funeral service, taken from a psalm, which says
“We flourish like a flower of the field. When the wind goes over it, it is gone,
and its place shall know it no more”. I am glad to have had a role in the story
of these churches and villages, but as time goes on, unless Jesus returns
soon, I will be a name on a board, one in a long line of Rectors and local
people. And that’s as much as many of us can hope for. But the funeral
service continues: “But the merciful goodness of the Lord endures for ever
and ever upon those that fear him”. If we fear God, that is, trust him, then
he will not forget us. Whether we leave a lasting legacy in this world, or a
silent one of love for those around us, those of us who trust in God, who are
citizens of the kingdom which cannot be shaken, are part of the only legacy
which will last, from now, to eternity.

Reverend Canon Tiffer Robinson is Rector of Rattlesden, Hitcham,
Brettenham and Thorpe Morieux and Rural Dean of Lavenham.

floodligHT SPoNSoR NeWS

RougHaM: During September, our Church floodlighting is
sponsored...
by Elizabeth Teverson ‘Celebrating 50th wedding anniversary of
Maurice and Anita Rose on 3rd September’ Congratulations!

In loving memory of Vera Gadbury

In memory of Anna Watkinson.
‘In memory of my dear wife Anna on her birthday,
12th September’ Robert

If you would like to sponsor the lights at any of our churches (in memory of a

relative or friend or just to help with the costs) then please contact:

RougHaM: Di Ruddock 01359 270731 [email protected]

BeyToN & HeSSeTT: Diane Rendle 01359 270924

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Uncovering more treasures

of St ethelbert’s

SiMoN KNoTT of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk,
continues the story of Hessett Church. You can find part one in our

last issue online at http://online.anyflip.com/xfgtl/zsqj

So – what survives at Hessett? The wall paintings first.
Starting in the south east corner of the nave, we have Suffolk’s finest

representation of St Barbara, presenting a tower (pictured opposite left). St Barbara
was very popular in medieval times, because she was invoked against strikes by
lightning and sudden fires. This resulted from her legend, for her father, on finding
her to be a Christian, walled her up in a tower until she repented. As a result, he was
struck by lightning, and reduced to ashes. She was also the patron saint of the
powerful building trade, and as such her image graced their guild altars – perhaps
that was the case here.

Above the south door is another figure, often identified as St Christopher, but I do
not think that this can be the case. St Christopher is found nowhere else in Suffolk
above a south door. The traditional iconography of this mythical saint is not in place
here, and it is hard to see how this figure could ever have been interpreted as such.
I suspect it is a result of an early account confusing the two images over the north
and south doors, and the mistake being repeated in later accounts.

In fact, digital enhancement seems to suggest that there are two figures above the
south door, overlapping each other slightly. The figure on the right is barefoot, that
on the left is wearing a white gown. There appears to be water under their feet, and
so I think this is an image of the Baptism of Christ. Perhaps it was once part of a
sequence.

The wall painting opposite, above the north door, is St Christopher. Although it isn’t
as clear as himself at, say, nearby Bradfield Combust, he bestrides the river in the
customary manner, staff in hand. The Christ child is difficult to discern, but you can
see the fish in the water. Also in the water, and rather unusual, are two figures. They
are rendered rather crudely, almost like gingerbread men. Could they be the donors
of the north aisle, John and Katherine Hoo in person?

Moving along the north aisle, we come to the set of paintings for which Hessett is
justifiably famous. They are set one above the other between two windows, at the
point where might expect the now-vanished screen to a chapel to have been. The
upper section was here first (pictured opposite right). It shows the seven deadly sins
(described wrongly in some text books as a tree of Jesse, or ancestry of Christ). Two
devils look on as, from the mouth of hell, a great tree sprouts, ending in seven
images. Pride is at the top, and in pairs beneath are Gluttony and Anger, Vanity and
Envy, Avarice and Lust. Some attempt has been made to erase the image for Lust,

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which may simply be mid-16th century puritan
prurience on the part of some reformer here.
This would suggest that this catechetical tool
was here right up until the Reformation. If so,
they were unsuccessful, because his erect
penis is still discernible.

The idea of ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ was anathema to the reformers, because it is
entirely unscriptural. Rather, as a catechetical tool, it is a way of drawing together a
multitude of sins into a simplistic aide-memoire. This could then be used in
confession, taking each of them one at a time and examining ones conscience
accordingly. It should not be seen simply as a ‘warning’ to ignorant peasants, for the
evidence is that the ordinary rural people of late medieval England were theologically
very articulate. Rather, it was a tool for use, in contemplation and preparation for the
sacrament of reconciliation, which may well have ordinarily taken place in the chapel
here.

The wall painting beneath the Sins is even more interesting. This is a very rare
‘Christ of the Trades’, and dates from the early 15th century, about a hundred years
after the painting above. It is rather faded, and takes a while to discern, and not all
of it is decodable. However, enough is there to be fascinating. The image of the

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‘Christ of the Trades’ is known throughout Christendom, and contemporary versions
with this can be found in other parts of Europe. It shows the risen Christ in the centre,
and around him a vast array of the tools and symbols of various trades. One theory
is that it depicts activities that should not take place on a Sunday, a holy day of
obligation to refrain from work, and that these activities are wounding Christ anew.

Perhaps the most fascinating symbol, and the one that everyone notices, is the
playing card. It shows the six of diamonds. Does it represent the makers of playing
cards? If so, it might suggest a Flemish influence. Or could it be intended to represent
something else? Whatever, it is one of the earliest representations of a playing card
in England. Why is this here? It may very well be that there was a trades gild chantry
chapel at the east end of the north aisle, and this painting was at its entrance.

At the east end of the north aisle now is the church’s set of royal arms. Cautley
saw it in the vestry in the 1930s, and identified it as a Queen Anne set. Now, with
additions stripped away, it is revealed as a Charles II set from the 1660s, and a very
fine one. It is fascinating to see it at such close range. Usually, they are set above
the south door now, although they would originally have been placed above the
chancel arch, in full view of the congregation, a gentle reminder of who was in charge.

And so to the glass (pictured above), which on its own would be worth coming to
Hessett to see. Few Suffolk churches have such an expanse, none have such a
variety, or glass of such quality and interest. It consists essentially of two ranges, the
life and Passion of Christ in the north aisle (although some glass has been reset
across the church), and images and hagiographies of Saints in the south aisle.

In the north aisle, the scourging of Christ stands out, the wicked grins of the
persecutors contrasting with the pained nobility of the Christ figure. In the next
window, Christ rises from the dead, coming out of his tomb like the corpses in the
doom paintings at Stanningfield, North Cove and Wenhaston. The Roman centurion
sleeps soundly in the foreground.

The most famous image is in the east window of the south aisle. Apparently, it
shows a bishop holding the chain to a bag, with four children playing at his feet. I
say apparently, because there is rather more going on here than meets the eye. The
reason that this image is so famous is that the small child in the foreground is holding
what appears to be a golf club or hockey stick, and this would be the earliest

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representation of such an object in all Europe. The whole image has been said to

represent St Nicholas, who was a Bishop, and whose legends include a bag of gold

and a group of children.

Unfortunately, this is not the case. St Nicholas is never symbolised by a bag of

gold, and there are three children in the St Nicholas legend, not four. In any case,

the hand in the picture is not holding the chain to a bag at all, but a rosary, and the

hockey stick is actually a fuller’s club, used for dyeing clothes, and the symbol of St

James the Less.

What has happened here is that the head of a Bishop has been grafted on to the

body of a figure which is probably still in its original location. The three lights of this

window contained a set of the Holy Kinship. The light to the north of the ‘Bishop’

contains two children playing with what are apparently toys, but when you look closely

you can see that one is holding a golden shell, and the other a poisoned chalice.

They are the infant St James and St John, and the lost figure above them was their

mother, Mary Salome. This means that the figure with the Bishop’s head is actually

Mary Cleophas, apocryphal mother of St Simon, St Jude, St Philip and St James the

Less with his fullers club. The third light to the south, of course, would have depicted

the Blessed Virgin and child, but she is lost to us.

If the windows and wall paintings were all there was, then Hessett would be

remarkable enough. But there is something else, two things, actually, that elevate it

above all other Suffolk churches, and all the churches of England. For St Ethelbert

is the proud owner of two unique survivals. At the back of the church is a chest, no

different from those you’ll find in many

a parish church. In common with those,

it has three separate locks, the idea

COMING SOON being that the Rector and two
Churchwardens would have a key
each, and it would be necessary for all

three of them to be present for the

chest to be opened. It was used for

storing parish records and valuables.

At some point, one of the keys was

lost. There is an old story about the

PICK YOUR OWN iconoclast William Dowsing turning up
here and demanding the chest be
PUMPKINS opened, but on account of the missing
key it couldn’t be. Unfortunately, this

devilish n for all the family! story isn’t true, for Dowsing never
recorded a visit Hessett. The chest was

1-2, 8-9, 15-16, 20-30 October eventually opened in the 19th century.
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pre-Reformation survivals. These are a

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(one of England’s four surviving medieval pyxes is also in Suffolk, at Dennington)
before it was raised above the high altar. The burse was used to contain the host
before consecration at the Mass. They are England’s only surviving examples, and
they’re both here. Or, more precisely they aren’t, for both have been purloined by
the British Museum, the kind of theft that no locked church can prevent.

But there are life-size photos of both either side of the tower arch. The burse is
basically an envelope, and features the Veronica face of Christ on one side with the
four evangelistic symbols in each corner. On the other is an Agnus Dei, the Lamb of
God. The survival of both is extraordinary. It is one thing to explore the furnishings of
lost Catholic England, quite another to come face to face with articles that were
actually used in the liturgy.

In front of the pictures stands the font, a relatively good one of the early 15th
century, though rather less exciting than everything going on around it. The
dedicatory inscription survives, to a pair of Hoos of an earlier generation than the
ones on the vestry. Turning east again, the ranks of simple 15th century benches are
all of a piece with their church. They have survived the violent transitions of the
centuries, and have seated generation after generation of Hessett people. They were
new here when this church was alive with coloured light, with the hundreds of candles
flickering on the rood beam, the processions, the festivals, and the people’s lives
totally integrated with the liturgy of the seasons. For the people of Catholic England,
their religion was as much a part of them as the air they breathed. They little knew
how soon it would all come to an end.

And so, there it is – one of the most fascinating and satisfactory of all East Anglia’s
churches. And yet, not many people know about it. We are only three miles from the
brown-signed honeypot of Woolpit, where a constant stream of visitors come and
go. I’ve visited Hessett many times, and never once encountered another visitor. Still,
there you are, I suppose. Perhaps some places are better kept secret. But come
here if you can, for here is a medieval worship space with much surviving evidence
of what it was actually meant to be, and meant to do.

Simon Knott visited in October 2019

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Hessett Church
Preservation Society

Please support our work to raise vital funds to preserve
Hessett Church by joining us at our community events and

taking out an annual membership for £12 a year.
In the next few weeks, we will be delivering updated

membership forms to all houses in the village.

Please consider joining us, your support will make
a big difference as we try to raise funds to complete

the many repairs to the rare mediaeval glass and
the organ amongst others.

If you are member already thank you for your continued support!
dates for your diaries:

agM: 9th November 2022 at 7pm in the village Hall
Christmas concert: 10th december 2022 to be confirmed

art exhibition: 15th-16th april 2023
Calling all professional and amateur artists in the village! Please
consider contributing to our Spring event. So, get painting, drawing,

photographing and creating. More details to follow.
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Choir enjoys
a colourful
evening of
song and fun

A popular choir in Bury St Edmunds held
its annual “Neville’s Night” evening, in
commemoration of Neville Rogers, a former member
who sadly passed away several years ago.

Neville was an iconic character in the St
Edmundsbury Male voice choir, who always attended
rehearsals wearing a colourful shirt. So, following his
passing, the choir decided to celebrate him each year
by having an evening of fun, where choir members
are encouraged to wear colourful shirts and bring
along friends and family to listen and join in the fun.

Requests were taken from the audience and the songs duly delivered with great
enthusiasm by the choir. Between songs, the musical director, Mark Jefferson, also
regaled the assembled with humorous anecdotes and amusing memories of
concerts and events. After refreshments, the friends and families were invited to
judge the members with the brightest shirts and this was won by Andrew Bonner,
wearing a stunning purple number.

give the choir a try?

If you are interested in singing with
the choir or would simply like to give
it a try, you can contact Nick Gane
at [email protected] or on
01284 700347, or alternatively visit
www.semvc.com for more
information.

There is no obligation, no
auditions and no need to read
music. The choir meets for regular
rehearsals every Thursday evening
at Howard Community Academy,
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Harvest Celebration
and Art Exhibition

10th, 11th September, 10am-4pm
Adults: £3 Children free
to include
Tea • Coffee • Cakes
Cake stall and Raffle

Please bring your artwork on either Friday 9th September between
4pm and 6pm or Saturday 10th September from 8.30am to 10am.

Contact Brenda Pickering on 01359 270909

All proceeds benefit

HESSETT CHURCH

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We’re playing the
waiting game for rain

It’s time to plan ahead while the hot weather has
its way says yvoNNe HaRBuTT

As I write, we are still experiencing very hot temperatures that are
having a drastic effect on our gardens.

We are hearing many comments about borders looking faded as
the plants, trees and hedges weigh heavy under the extreme heat.
Lawns are also suffering but will soon recover after a few showers.
There is a promise of rain on the horizon, albeit scattered across the
county. No doubt when it eventually starts it’s likely not to know when
to stop!

After some refreshing rain the garden often has a second flush of
colour lasting for several weeks. In the meantime, we play the waiting
game and make plans for when we can get back in the garden to
enjoy the autumn months.

If you are looking further ahead for some early colour in the new

Save the dates! The Village Hall
3rd September The Street
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1st October
5th November BUry St Edmunds
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year, Spring flowering bulbs are now available. Select your choice
early, they can then be planted during October and November when,
hopefully the ground will be suitable to dig.

Your tubs and baskets are more than likely ready to be replanted
for the autumn. Violas, pansies and cyclamen are all reliable
favourites which will last through the coming months, providing a
colourful display. Mix in with some ajuga, heuchera and grasses for
some evergreen tones and structure.

If you need to replace perennials and shrubs, consider varieties that
are tolerant of dry conditions. Be mindful that new additions should
also be able to cope with long spells of wet weather that we can
experience during the winter months.

Research plants suitable for your conditions before you decide to
buy. As our climate continues to change, we will meet challenges on
the way to keep us on our toes, it can be unpredictable at times, but
it’s the satisfaction that brings the pleasure!.

Contact Yvonne Harbutt at Rougham Hall Nurseries on 01359
270577 or visit www.rhn.me.uk

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Poet’s corner

Dover Beach

by Matthew Arnold

The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

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Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Dover Beach is a lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. It was first
published in 1867, however, surviving notes indicate its composition may have
begun as early as 1849. The title, locale and subject of the poem’s descriptive
opening lines is the shore of the English ferry port of Dover, in Kent,
facing Calais, in France, at the Strait of Dover, where Arnold spent his
honeymoon in 1851. Many of the beaches in this part of England are
made up of small stones or pebbles rather than sand, and Arnold describes the
sea ebbing over the stones as a “grating roar”.

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Happy news from an ‘old boy’

We are delighted to have heard from Nick Cutler, formerly the
Rector of the Rougham Benefice. He writes: Hello to all my friends, I
hope you are well and that the church is thriving.

I’d been meaning to send some pictures for a while but seem to be
so busy being retired!

We are very much enjoying life here in Stratford-upon-Avon – we’ve
been to the theatre several times, I managed to complete (very
slowly!) the ‘Shakespeare marathon’ and I have bought (with some
of the church retirement gift – thank you all very much) a beautiful Isle
of Lewis chess set (it’s a full-size replica of the 12th century originals
in the British Museum).

With love to everyone
Nick & Alex

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Church Services September 2022
???????????? Services March 2022

Please do join us at any of the following - you are most welcome!

Sunday 4th September
9am Morning Prayer Rougham
10.30am Holy Communion Rougham

Thursday 8th September
10.30am Morning Prayer Beyton

Sunday 11th September
10.30am Holy Communion Beyton
6pm Harvest Songs of Praise Hessett

Sunday 18th September
9.30am (for 10.00) Family @ Church
(including breakfast treats) Rougham

11am Holy Communion Rougham

Sunday 25th September
10.30am Holy Communion Beyton

Sunday 2nd October
9am Holy Communion Rushbrooke
10.30am Holy Communion Rougham

Please note that on 18 September we will start our
new Family@Church (please see the full details on page 6).
Afterwards coffee will be served (at 10.40am) before an abridged
Holy Communion service starts at 11am. All are welcome at both

the Family@Church service and the Holy Communion
or at either one but we would love to see as many as possible

at the Family@Church service.

Wearing masks in church is not compulsory but
please respect others who wear them and allow comfortable space