Ilketshall+St+Andrew

Whites ILKETSHALL ST. ANDREW, 4 miles S.E. Bungay, and S.W. by W. of Beccles, is a parish containing 584 souls, and 1696 A. of strong loamy land. Its houses are scattered round the margins of several greens, lying east of the other Ilketshalls, and being, like them, in the Duke of Norfolk's Liberty. The soil belongs to Wm. Adair, Esq., Lord George Beresford, Rev. J. Day, J. Garden, Esq., Rev. C. Clark, Thomas Farr, Esq., and several smaller owners. The Church (St. Andrew) is an ancient structure, on a commanding eminence. It is of flint and stone, and its tower is circular at the base, and octangular at the top. The benefice is a discharged vicarage, valued a K.B. at £5. 13s. 4d., and in 1835 at £139. It has 28A. of glebe, and a small parsonage, and is in the patronage of Bungay Grammar School, and incumbency of the Rev. John Gilbert. The rectorial tithes belong to Mrs. Ann Scott, and several of the principal landowners. The Wesleyans have a small chapel here, of flint and white brick, erected in 1840. The Town Estate comprises a double cottage, and 2A. of land, let for £ ll. lOs. a year; and 7A. called Redisham Close, let for £10 a year. One half of the rents is applied to the reparation of the church, and the remainder in defraying other public expenses of the parish. Booker Anthony, tailor Branch Mr John Brighten Robert, shopkeeper Cullum Stephen, butcher Gardner Hannah, beerhouse keeper Green David, corn miller Green John, vict. Hare & Hounds Hambling Ann, shopkeeper Hambling Jeremiah, blacksmith & ironmonger Haney Robert, blacksmith High James, wheelwright Howlett Benjamin, wheelwright Hunting Chas. veterinary surgeon Kemp James, shoemaker Kemp Robert, parish clerk Morris James, joiner Oldring J. shoemaker Sayer Meshach, tailor & shopkeeper Stanard Geo. bricklayer & shopkeeper Turrell James, joiner Wyatt Wm. beerhouse FARMERS. Adams George Breese James Burgess Thomas Buskard Wm. Button Ephraim Calver James Chaston Robert Clarke Samuel Cullum Wm. Howlett Jonth. Newby George Nurse James Phillips James Sadd John Salter John Salter Wm. Tooke Peter Turner Robert Kellys ILKETSHALL ST. ANDREW is a parish and scattered village, 4 miles south-east from Bungay station on the Waveney Valley section of the London and North Eastern railway, in the Lowestoft division of the county, Bungay petty sessional division; Wangford hundred and union, Beccles and Bungay county court district, rural deanerv of South Elmham, archdeaconery of Suffolk and diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The church of St. Andrew is a small but ancient structure of rubble and flint, in the Saxon, Norman and Gothic styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower, round at the base and octagonal in the upper part, containing 3 bells: the doorway is Norman: the church affords 180 sittings. The register dates from the year 1542. The living is a vicarage, to which that of Ilketshall St. Lawrence was annexed in 1927, joint net value, yearly value £380, and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Edmundsbury and Ipswich, who has two turns, and the Lord Chancellor, who has one turn, and held since 1910 by the Rev. Alfred Huddle M.A. of Ayerst Hall, Cambridge. The Misses Smythe hold the great tithes, amounting to about £130 yearly. There is a small Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1840. The town lands of 13 acres, together with a double cottage and two single ones, are let for £20 yearly, which sum is applied to the repairs of the church and various charitable purposes. Walter James Alcock esq. is the chief landowner. The soil is generally heavy; subsoil, sandy clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and bean, The area is 1,718 acres; the population in 1921 was 411. Sexton, Hubert Clack. Post Office. Letters through Beccles. Bungay is th nearest M. O. & Ilketshall St. Margaret the nearest T. office. PRIVATE RESIDENTS Hewat Mrs. Manor Farm House Huddle Rev. Alfred M.A. (vicar), Vicarage Kaye Roger Baker, Little Beck Kaye Tom Herbert, Little Beck COMMERCIAL. Marked thus * farm 150 acres or over Baker Walter, blacksmith Bircham Thomas Edwin, farmer Blowers Ephraim, smith, Clifton cot. Brighton William, shopkeeper Burrows Ernest Edward farmer Calver Walter, builder * Cannell Carlos Jn.Gilbt, farmer, Red House farm Cook Thos. W. farmer, Chapel & Berry's farm Cobyn George, farmer Cottam Edmund Finch, farmer Firman Wm. farmer & rate collector for Ilketshall St. Andrew & St. Margaret, S. Elmham St. Peter & St. Michael & Flixton & Redisham Fiske Claude, shopkeeper Fuller Alfred B. farmer, Becks Green farm Gill Wm. farmer Corner farm Grice Charles, Hare & Hounds P.H. * Kaye Roger Baker, stock farmer, Little Beck farm Edward,grocer, Post Office Smith Wm. farmer, Old Vicarage farm Stebbings James, beer retailer Thurlow John, farmer Whittleton Walter Garrett, farmer, Brook farm Dutt Ilketshall St Andrew (4 m. S.E. of Bungay).The church has a round tower and Norm. nave and N. and S. doorways. Note a tomb in the S. wall of the chancel.

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