Revd Richard Enraght SSC (1837-1898): Bintree, Norfolk, 1895-1898.

This priest of conscience and conviction arrived at his final Parish of St Swithun Church Bintree (then Bintry) in 1895, after being presented to the benefice by Lord Hastings , to end his ministry and life in a quiet country parish in Norfolk. [45]

Fr Enraght died on St Matthew’s Day, September 21st, 1898 and is buried at the south east end of St Swithun’s churchyard, Bintree. His grave is that of a “Confessor” (someone who suffered for the faith, while not dying for it). Two windows of the Lady Chapel, depicting the Annunciation of Our Lady are dedicated to Fr. Enraght as well as a statue of St. Swithun above the porch, inscribed: “It is placed as a memorial to a great and good priest Richard William Enraght”. [46]

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St. Swithun statue above the porch, inscribed:
“It is placed as a memorial to a great
and good priest Richard William Enraght

Those who knew the Revd Richard Enraght at Brighton, Portslade, Birmingham and the East End of London could bear witness to his kind and helpful life as priest and friend to all his people, and those who were witnesses of his arrest and imprisonment would never forget the solemnity and pathos of that event. [47 ]

Throughout Fr Enraght’s ministry his wife Dorothea played an active part in church life wherever he served, and stood by him through the times of prosecution, imprisonment and the family’s eviction from their Bordesley vicarage. In this period of hardship of losing his living in Birmingham and the next stage of his ministry in finding a new parish, the Church Union’s Sustentation Fund generously supported Fr Enraght and his Family, while they spent a short time to convalesce in Brighton after a most traumatic period of his and his Family’s lives. [48] [49]

Revd Richard Enraght's gravestone at Bintree.

His grave is that of a “Confessor” (someone
who suffered for the faith, while not dying for it).

Dorothea (née Gooch) Enraght died in 1932 and was buried next to her husband.

The Lady Chapel windows at
St Swithun’s Bintree
depicting the Annunciation of Our Lady
('The Enraght Memorial Window')

St Swithun Church, Bintree, Norfolk.

In April 1933, 'The Enraght Memorial Window' was dedicated at St Swithun Church, Bintree. The subject was a two light window is the Annunciation. This window was installed in the Lady Chapel above the altar. This stained glass window was a gift from members of the Enraght family. Bishop O’Rorke dedicated the window at a special evensong service, two representatives of the Enraght family, Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs Spurgeon, both from Aldeburgh, were amongst the large congregation. (Bishop Mowbray Stephen O'Rorke, a former Bishop of Accra, the Rector of Blakeney in Norfolk and a Guardian of The Shrine at Our Lady of Walsingham)

Some years earlier a statue of St Swithun was place above the entrance of the Church, inscribed: "It is placed as a memorial to a great and good priest Richard William Enraght"

Anglo-Catholic Mass Marks Pastoral Festival of St Swithun

The Yarmouth Independent, reported on the 20 July 1935; ‘Anglo-Catholic Mass Marks Pastoral Festival of St Swithun;
Bintry (Bintree) annually observes the festival of its patron saint, St Swithun, by the celebration of Holy Mass. On Monday morning the Guild of St Michael, a guild of twenty-six Anglo-Catholic priests, drawn mainly from North Norfolk, attended the Mass, which was noteworthy for the rendering of the office, the chants of John Merbecke (1513-85) being used. Priests in their ceremonial vestments, attended by crucifer, thurifer, and acolytes, made a colourful spectacle in procession from the Chapel of Our Lady.
This was at least, the 116^th anniversary of the church, which owes its Anglo-Catholic traditions to the late Father Richard Enraght, Rector from 1895 to 1898’.

See Enraght Family from 1805 to 1932 :-

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