St+Peters+Directory

WHITES

SOUTH ELMHAM ST. PETER, a small parish, on an eminence, 3 miles S. of Bungay, cont£926. The Hall is an ancient building, occupied by a farmer. William Adair Esq., is lord of the manor, owner of the greater part of the soil, and patron of the church, a small structure with a tower and three bells. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £8, is consolidated with that of Southelmham St. Margaret, in the incumbency of the Rev. A. Holmes, A.M., who has here 25A. of glebe. The poor parishioners have about £9. l0s. yearly from Henry Smith's Charity estate at Tolleshunt-Darcy, in Essex.

Directory:-Horace Freeston, gent.; Robert Knights, shopkeeper and vict., Hawk; and James Barber, Joseph Brown, Wm. Brown, Robert Cunningham, and Humphrey Durrant, farmers.

KELLYS

SOUTH ELMHAM ST. PETER is 4 miles south from Bungay. The church of St. Peter is a small building of flint and rubble in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: there are 120 sittings, 60 being free. There is a tablet in the church in memory of the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18. A carved rood screen was placed in the church in 1923. The register dates from the year 1695. The living is a rectory, consolidated with that of South Elmham St. Margaret, joint net yearly value £350, with residence, in the gift of Sir Robert S. Adair hart. D.L., J.P. **and held since 1929 by the Rev. Robert Bertie Illsley Sharpe B.A. of London University, who is also vicar of and resides at Flixton (near Bungay).** The poor have £4 yearly from H. Smith's charity estate in Essex. The Hall, an ancient building and formerly the residence of the Tasburgh family, is now a farm house, but is still surrounded by a moat. Sir Robert S. Adair bart. D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor, and the land is mostly owned by the farmers. The soil is sandy loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 570 acres; the population in 1921 was 67.

Parish Clerk, Thomas Lord. Letters received through Bungay, which is the nearest M.O.office. The nearest T. office is Ilketshall St. Margaret

Directory:-Horace Freeston, gent.; Robert Knights, shopkeeper and vict., Hawk; and James Barber, Joseph Brown, Wm. Brown, Robert Cunningham, and Humphrey Durrant, farmers.

DUTT

South Elmham St Peter church (4 m. S. of Bungay) is chiefly Perp., but the S. doorway is Norm., and there is a Dec. E. window. Note (1) the chancel arch; and (2) the nave roof. St Peter's Hall, now a farmhouse, was formerly a seat of the Tasburgh family. It is a moated house, part of which is believed to date from the latter part of the fifteenth century.