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St.Margaret’s Church southern aspect, captured by Richard Powles in his ink-and-wash study of 1785. His meticulous attention to detail gives a real sense of the building’s architectural splendour and quality of construction. Image taken from the Isaac Gillingwater collection of local illustrations (c, 1807) - Suffolk Archives (Ipswich), Acc. No. 193/2/1.

St. Margaret’s Parish Church

Introduction

The Church of England, as it stands today, is an organisation which originated in the need for a Tudor monarch (Henry VIII) to produce a male heir and secure his family’s tenure of the Crown and which then became part of a North European, Protestant, theological revolution. It is currently undergoing one of its periodic phases of change.

 Added: 4 December, 2025