Father Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard from St Edmunds Roman Catholic Church in East Anglia was working on his books in the sacristy when he heard a large bang.
“It didn’t worry me terribly much at the time, it’s more in retrospect I realised how narrow it (his escape) was.
“All I was wondering was what on earth had happened, I thought a tree had fallen down but it was much more like a bang and what one would have expected from a tree falling, which I expect would have been more of a crunching noise.
“I wasn’t actually in the church, I was in the sacristy (similiar to a vestry), right next to the high altar of the church and this cross blew off the top of the main church but it landed on the sacristy roof, right over where I actually happened to be standing at the time, I was marking up the books…this was last Saturday and there was a tremendous wind storm that lasted for about three-quarters of an hour.”
When asked what his first reaction was, he said: “My first thought was that it was a bomb and then I thought well it couldn’t be a bomb – people don’t go around bombing churches very much in this country – and I was looking around and see if there was a table I could get under or something but of course, once it had fallen there was practically dead silence because there was nothing else to fall.”
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