VICAR AND VILLAGERS
ALTERATIONS IN CHURCH. ESSEX PARISH DISPUTE. LONDON, May 20. Trouble has speedily the appointment as vicar of Stebbing, Essex, of the R.ev. Franklin Hutchinson, whose disappearance from Doddinghurst in August, 1928, caused a sensation lasting several weeks, until lie was located in Canada. Mr Hutchinson has been in bis new living since Easter, and, according to the “Weekly Dispatch,” tlio villagers resentfully allege that without consulting anyone lie moved church ornaments and fittings, including a model of the church, and also the Bible-rest from tlie pulpit. The bellringers and choir men went on strike. Mr Hutchinson says tbe objectors represent a small section of the congregation, and that his alterations were trivial. He merely placed the model in a niche, and sawed off the reading desk because it hid him when lie was preaching. The churchwarden had refused to carry out the alteration. As frr the choir, it was only a one-man affair.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 196, 2 June 1930, Page 5
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