tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853292815232762467.post7177299644009311194..comments2023-10-04T12:22:26.747+01:00Comments on East Anglia Seminarians: Another tour of 'Suffolkian' churchesEA Seminarianshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10572848818552848894noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853292815232762467.post-74203606392207048462012-02-13T11:44:39.893+00:002012-02-13T11:44:39.893+00:00Thank you, Father, that's quite interesting. I...Thank you, Father, that's quite interesting. I enjoyed my visit!EA Seminarianshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10572848818552848894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853292815232762467.post-77610418186454174182012-02-12T18:06:51.005+00:002012-02-12T18:06:51.005+00:00Saint Thomas of Canterbury Church in Woodbridge wa...Saint Thomas of Canterbury Church in Woodbridge was indeed built in 1850 but it had many other owners before the property was bought by the Northampton Diocese in 1929. The following year it was converted for Catholic worship by the Birmingham architect, Arnold Crush, FRIBA, a Catholic convert.<br /><br />From 1850 to 1929 the building was used as a Temperance Hall, a Lecture Hall, a Mechanics Institute and the meeting rooms for the Y.M.C.A. <br /><br />A member of the Woodbridge Carmelite Convent painted the script "Altare Privilegiatum" which hangs above the altar. The nuns left Woodbridge in 1938 and moved to Rushmere near Ipswich. In 1948 they moved again to their present convent at Quidenham in Norfolk.<br /><br />The heraldic achievement on the baldacchino is that of H.H. Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti), 1922-39.<br /><br />Parochus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com