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Long Melford’s village ‘cathedral’ Work to begin on Riverside reveals its treasures
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Babergh District Council has completed the purchase of a section of land in Great Cornard that will link the parish to Sudbury via a Stour-side footpath. The land had previously been owned by the Long Melford and Sudbury Angling Association, which agreed to sell the land to Babergh. To mark the purchase Babergh’s A 15th-century church in Suffolk has embarked on an £800,000 restoration project to conserve and protect its Leader, Cllr John Ward, visited the area and was joined by Great Cornard councillors Tony Bavington, Tom unique collection of medieval stained glass. Burrows and Mark Newman, and Cllr Jan Osborne, who has been closely involved in the delivery of the As much as 90Once percent of the glass England’s churches was smashed in the Reformation andRiverside by the Puritans footpath. completed theinpath will provide an extension to the existing Cornard Path, after allowing the residents Civil War, but extraordinary riches survived in Long andsome visitors to enjoy more of the riverbank as Melford. well as providing pedestrian access to the River Stour As one of Visitor South Suffolk’s celebrated ‘wool Long Meadow. Melford was among the wealthiest places in medieval at towns’, Dovehouse Trust’s and Education Centre Europe andcomplete, its church the has the cathedral. Historian Sir Simon SchamaMeadow has called ‘an extraordinary When pathgrandeur will formof aa pedestrian route from Dovehouse in itGreat Cornard to the example of both spectacle andThis sophistication’, and it is one of onlya ‘missing 18 churches get its a five-star rating Sir enable Simon the Cornard Riverside Path. area had previously formed link’toand purchase will in now entireauthoritative England’s route from Dovehouse MeadowBest to Friars Meadow near the Kingfisher Leisure Centre to be enjoyed. Cllr Jenkins’ Thousand Churches. of high this land, withclerestory the co-operation of the John Ward, Leader of Babergh District Council, said: “The purchase Its surviving glass escaped the two waves of vandalism largely because it was up in the (the upper Association, is great has been a real drive for this path from both the community and from partAngling of the nave). It has since beennews: movedthere to the north aisle of the church. councillors across the political spectrum. We’re now set to complete the path and I’m looking forward to putting on my walking boots and enjoying the sights The mainly secular images show donors who financed the construction of the huge church, plus the friends and sounds of the Stour from Dovehouse Meadow to Friars Meadow.”
and family of the principal funder, local wool tycoon John Clopton. Their portraits provide a unique record of the costumes, heraldry and hairstyles of the late 15th century.
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