Little Walsingham Norfolk
Tomb of Alfred Hope Patten, priest, 1885-1958 best known for his restoration of the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.
An introspective only child, he became an Anglo-Catholic in Brighton whilst still a teenager, He became interested in not only the medieval church but also the religious life, visiting the Anglican Benedictines at Painsthorpe in 1906 and being profoundly influenced by their abbot Aelred Carlyle.
After attending Lichfield Theological College he was ordained deacon in 1913 at Holy Cross Church in the St Pancras area. After 3 other curacies, including the Good Shepherd church, Carshalton, in 1921 he became vicar of Great and Little Walsingham with St Giles' Houghton. Within months of arriving he had a statue of Our Lady of Walsingham modelled on the medieval priory's seal and placed it in the parish's main church, St Mary's. He also started Marian devotions in his church and - aided by the League of Our Lady (later the Society of Mary) - the first pilgrimages from London. His bishop opposed the statue and he agreed to move it out of the church in 1931, using this as a chance to rebuild the Holy House here, which was rebuilt in 1938 to accommodate rising pilgrim numbers. On his death he was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=158173... - Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk
Little Walsingham Norfolk
Tomb of Alfred Hope Patten, priest, 1885-1958 best known for his restoration of the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.
An introspective only child, he became an Anglo-Catholic in Brighton whilst still a teenager, He became interested in not only the medieval church but also the religious life, visiting the Anglican Benedictines at Painsthorpe in 1906 and being profoundly influenced by their abbot Aelred Carlyle.
After attending Lichfield Theological College he was ordained deacon in 1913 at Holy Cross Church in the St Pancras area. After 3 other curacies, including the Good Shepherd church, Carshalton, in 1921 he became vicar of Great and Little Walsingham with St Giles' Houghton. Within months of arriving he had a statue of Our Lady of Walsingham modelled on the medieval priory's seal and placed it in the parish's main church, St Mary's. He also started Marian devotions in his church and - aided by the League of Our Lady (later the Society of Mary) - the first pilgrimages from London. His bishop opposed the statue and he agreed to move it out of the church in 1931, using this as a chance to rebuild the Holy House here, which was rebuilt in 1938 to accommodate rising pilgrim numbers. On his death he was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=158173... - Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk