Hindolveston

The original church of St George collapsed in 1892 (after 700 years of worship); a temporary building was erected nearer to the village centre, half a mile further down the road next to the old school and it served the villagers for worship for the next 40 years.

The new Parish Church of St. George was built on this site in 1932, by a local builder, Mr J Becker, costing £2,500, incorporating materials from the old church, with stone, flint walls, oak doors and stone flagged floors and oak pews, seating 160 people and heated by electricity.

The Jacobean Altar (in the North Chapel) with the silver cup dating 1568, the plate, font and the monumental brasses, the communion rails and the pew ends of poppy carvings and the two chests are all from the original St. George’s.

The ruins of the old church and the tower still (heavily clad in ivy) stand on the burial ground.

The Victorian village school closed in 1984 and is now the village hall.

Stanley Cowell