VICAR AND VILLAGERS
ALTERATIONS IN CHURCH ESSEX PARISH DISPUTE LONDON, 20th May. Trouble, lias speedily followed the appointment as vicar of Stebbing, Essex, of the Rev. Franklin Hutchinson, whose disappearance from Doddin’ghurst in August, 1928, caused a sensation lasting several weeks, until he was located in Canada. j : iu Mr Hutchinson ha's been in his new! living since Easter and, according to the “Weekly Dispatch,” the villagers resentfully allege that without consulting anyone he moved church ornaments and fittings, including a model of the church, and also the Bible-rest from the pulpit. The bellringers and choir men went on strike.
Mr Hutchinson say the 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 tho alteration. As for the choir, it was, only a one-man affair.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 June 1930, Page 2
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