Stowlangtoft

Stowlangtoft

Church of St George
Stowlangtoft
 Stowlangtoft shown within Suffolk
Population 270 [1]
DistrictMid Suffolk
Shire countySuffolk
RegionEast
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Police Suffolk
Fire Suffolk
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
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Coordinates: 52°16′37″N 0°52′26″E / 52.277°N 0.874°E

Stowlangtoft Hall, built 1859, in 1880, by Francis Orpen Morris

Stowlangtoft is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England two miles south-east from Ixworth. Located around five miles north-east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 270.[1]

Name

The village, originally just Stow, was held by the de Languetot family in the early 13th century.[2]

St George's

For all of Stowlangtoft's small size, St George's is within the group classed as "Great Churches". The church was built as a single construction project in the late 14th century and barely changed until the restoration work undertaken in the 19th century. The church is in the decorated and later English styles; the chancel contains several richly-carved stalls and monuments to members of the family of D'Ewes.[3] The church and parsonage-house are located on what was once the site of a Roman encampment.[3] Sir Symonds D'Ewes, Bart., the eminent antiquary, lived in the Hall.[3] Peter Tillemans, one of the founders of the English school of sporting painting, was buried in St George's on 7 December 1734.[4]

At some point after the Dissolution of the monasteries, St George's acquired six 14th-century misericords. It is not clear where these misericords originated, but possible candidates are Thetford Priory or Bury Abbey.[5]

Horror tree

In the grounds of Stowlangtoft Hall, there is a gruesome-looking tree attracting many visitors .

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Suffolk County Council
  2. ↑ Ekwall, Eilert The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (4th ed., 1960) p. 448
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Stoven - Stowick, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 234-38 british-history.ac.uk, accessed 17 April 2009
  4. ↑ Noakes, Aubrey, Sportsmen in a Landscape (Ayer Publishing, 1971, ISBN 0-8369-2005-8), pp. 47–56: Peter Tillemans and Early Newmarket at books.google.com, accessed 7 February 2009
  5. ↑ Suffolk Churches website, entry for Stowlangtoft, accessed 7 February 2013

External links

Media related to Stowlangtoft at Wikimedia Commons