Ilketshall+St+Lawrence

Whites ILKETSHALL ST. LAWRENCE, comprises several scattered houses near the church, on the Halesworth road, 3 miles S.S.E. of Bungay, and the hamlet of St. Lawrence Green, 1.5 miles S. of the church. Its parish contains 221 souls, and 988 acres of land. It is mostly in Sir W. W.Dalling's manor of Bardolph, but the soil belongs to the Rev. J. Day, Sir E. Kerrison, Col. Bence, Lady Beresford, Wm. Adair, Esq., the Rev. R. A. Arnold, and a few smaller owners. The Church (St. Lawrence) is a small structure, and the benefice is a perpetual curacy, valued in 1835 at £47. The Rev. J. Day, of Hethersett, Norfolk, is patron and impropriator, and the Rev. James Culling Safford, of Mettingham, is the incumbent. It was appropriated to the nuns of Bungay. Part of a large ancient Hall is divided into small tenements, and the remainder was taken down many years ago. Those marked X are on the Green. Bedingfield James, parish clerk X Day John W. shoemaker X Howard James, wheelwright X Morris James, joiner X Moulding Wm., corn miller & shopkeeper. X Woolnough Rt. vict. & blacksmith, Royal Oak FARMERS (* are owners) Becket Robert X Chandler Geo. * Dunnett Rd. * Girling Thomas Howard James * Knights James X Newham.Wm. X Tye John Walne George Warner Wm. The Grove Kellys ILKETSHALL ST. LAWRENCE is a village and parish on the Halesworth road, from 4 to 5 miles southeast from Bungay, in the Lowestoft division of the county, Bungay petty sessional division, Wangford hundred and union, Beccles and Bungay county court district, rural deanery of South Elmham, archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The church of St. Lawrence, standing on the site of a Roman camp of about one acre in extent, is a small building of rubble and flint, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower containing 2 bells: in the nave is a brass to Richard Beetes, ob. 1613, and on the chancel wall is a memorial to Anthony Style, who presented the communion plate still in use: the church was restored in 1875, and affords 130 sittings, all free. The register dates from the year 1559. The living is a vicarage, united in 1927 to that of Ilketshall St. Andrew, joint net yearly value £380, in the gift of the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich who has two turns, and the Lord Chancellor who has one turn, and held since 1927 by the Rev. Alfred Huddle M.A. of Ayerst Hall, Cambridge, who resides at Ilketshall St. Andrew. Messrs hazard and Pratt are lords of the manor. Walter J. Alcock esq. is the principal landowner. The soil is sandy loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 1,180 acres; the population in 1921 was 221. Sexton, Ephraim Blowers. Letters through Beccles, which is the nearest M.O. office. The nearest T. office is at Ilketshall St. Margaret. Police Station. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Alcock Walter James, Ilketshall hall Sutton Roland Tom, Osborne house Thurlow Mrs. Lodge farm house COMMERCIAL. Marked thus * farm 150 acres or over. Aldridge Albt. farmer, Tithe farm Barnard Wnl. farmer, Kingsfene farm Blowers Arth. Edwd. farmer, Mi11 fm Cottam Thomas, farmer, Gower’s farm English David, farmer, Grove farm Foster Eliz. Agues (Mrs), poultry farmer Foster Percy Ratcliff, motor engineer Lake Harold Samuel, rabbit breeder Page Henry, farmer Sanderson Launcelot, dairy farmer, White House farm Smith Walter, farm steward to W.J Alcock esq. Grove farm Smith-Howell Simpson, farmer, Rosary farm Thurlow Arthur Joseph, farmer, Laurels & School farm Watson Walter. Royal Oak P.H. Woodgate Rt. Boot repairer Dutt Ilketshall St Lawrence church (3 m. S.E. of Bungay) stands within an ancient encampment near the line of the old " Stone Street ." It is 12th cent. with later additions. Note a brass to Richard Beetes (1613).

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