Holy Trinity Church, Barsham, Suffolk

Our God for him wrought marvellously

1916 HARRY STEBBINGS 1918

Deo gratias

 

I am guessing that Harry Stebbings was either the organist here at the church or his infant son but I haven't found anything to back that up. I also guess that he was either killed in the War or was only two years old when he died. I have looked through the Commonwealth War Dead and there is a Henry Stebbings who died in 1918 but no clear link found to this man.

 

 

Barsham Holy Trinity is one of 38 existing round-tower churches in Suffolk and a Grade I listed building.

 

The flint nave is thatched whilst the chancel is tiled. The two bay North Aisle was added in the early 1900s and is dedicated as a chapel to St Catherine.

 

On the 8th February 1906 lightning struck the east end of the church destroying the stonework of the east window. The fund raised to repair this damage also paid for the building of the north aisle as the chapel of St Catherine. In 1979, a fire destroyed the nave roof.

 

Horatio Nelson's mother Catherine Suckling was born in the former rectory on 9 May 1725

 

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