Sophie Holt-Wilson and Adam Chappell got married in a church that had once belonged to Sophie's family over three hundred years ago and has been closed for the past five years after being declared pastorally redundant.
The bride is a direct descendant of Sir John Holt who was the Lord Chief Justice of King William III, Queen Mary II in the seventeenth century and the Church of St Mary was built by the Abbots of the Benedictine Abbey of St Edmundsbury in the fourteenth century.
Sophie and Adam exchanged their vows for family and friends in what was a 'one off ' marriage ceremony and the couple felt very privileged to be married in the church that is used only six times per year for Sunday worship and funerals. Special permission had to be applied for them to get married in the church.
While the bells, which for five years been silent, were ringing, the newlyweds were driven to their family home for reception in Redgrave on a tractor.
Earlier this year, the Church of St Mary made the headlines when a woman fell through the floor and coffins belonging to the family of the Holt were discovered.
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