Mettingham College

When writing his will in 1373, another Sir John, grandson of the founder, was planning to move the college to Norton Subcourse, and left £450 for the building of a new church there.

His cousin Katherine de Brews became his heir, and as her trustees Sir Roger de Boys, John Playz and others in 1382 paid a very large sum to license the removal of the college to Mettingham Castle.

This was also frustrated owing to objections raised by the nuns of Bungay Priory, but the number of canons was increased to thirteen.

[9] While in no way a re-creation of the original medieval chantry college, on 1 September 2012 the College of Our Lady of Mettingham was formally inaugurated under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in the grounds of The White House in the north of the parish of Mettingham.

The college is a unique institution which seeks to become an Orthodox pastoral, pilgrimage and education centre.