Tuesday 10 March 2009

Still Tuesday.

The farmer, Charles Westren, who put up this memorial was a noncomformist Christian (a Methodist) I believe. Like all farmers he had to pay his tithe to the established Church (C.of E.), and objected strongly to this. I can quite see his point. The system was finally sorted out, and tything abolished in the 1990s. The 'Tithe Wars' were at their bitterest in a bad period of recession in the twenties and thirties and made a bad time much worse in rural areas. I hope our farmer made a success of things in Australia.
Elmsett Church is an interesting little Church of many different periods, but it's best known, I think, for the above memorial.
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