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Like every Commandery in this Priory, we have a local charity that we sponsor in addition to the national or international charities supported by the Priory and the Order. The local charity we sponsor is the East Anglia Children's Hospices (EACH) which is a
consortium of three East Anglia hospices located in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk. You can learn more about this charity at
www.each.org.uk We provide services to the charity as needed and we organize and conduct fund-raising projects for the charity as well.
Each Commandery also has a church with which it is affiliated and in which it conducts services. For our Commandery, it is the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary located in Attleborough,
Norfolk. The church has Saxon foundations and is built in Norman and Early English styles. The present building is only part of the original construction. The large square Norman tower, now at the east end was  once at the centre of a much larger building which had a fine chancel and choir extending to the east,
while the North and South transepts formed the shape of a cross. The whole of this eastern end belonged to the College of the Holy Cross, founded in the late fourteenth century by Sir Robert
Mortimer, who enlarged the nave for the Parish. The present church is located on the exact site of the Saxon church where young St. Edmund spent a year studying the Psalter with the priests in Attleborough
before his coronation in 856 A.D. We welcome your queries and comments. For more information about our Commandery, or to share your opinion of our site, please e-mail us at [email protected] |
