Village sign
Wetheringsett cum Brockford, Suffolk.
The figures flanking the church tower represent two past rectors of All Saints' church, famous for very different reasons.
On the left is Richard Hakluyt, rector from 1590 to 1616, and known as the "father of modern geographers" for his works Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principall Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation (1589–1600).
On the right is George Ellis, who served as rector for 5 years until 1888 when it was discovered that he wasn't ordained, earning himself a jail sentence and obliging Parliament to rush through a law validating all the marriages he'd conducted!
Village sign
Wetheringsett cum Brockford, Suffolk.
The figures flanking the church tower represent two past rectors of All Saints' church, famous for very different reasons.
On the left is Richard Hakluyt, rector from 1590 to 1616, and known as the "father of modern geographers" for his works Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principall Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation (1589–1600).
On the right is George Ellis, who served as rector for 5 years until 1888 when it was discovered that he wasn't ordained, earning himself a jail sentence and obliging Parliament to rush through a law validating all the marriages he'd conducted!