Stowlangtoft

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Stowlangtoft
Location within Suffolk
Population270 (2005) [1]
228 (2011) [2]
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Bury St Edmunds
Postcode district IP31
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52°16′37″N0°52′26″E / 52.277°N 0.874°E / 52.277; 0.874

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]

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Name

The village, originally just Stow, was held by the de Languetot family in the early 13th century. [3]

St George's Church

For all of Stowlangtoft's small size, St George's is within the group classed as "Great Churches". Simon Jenkins included it in his book England's Thousand Best Churches. [4] 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. [5] The church and parsonage-house are located on what was once the site of a Roman encampment. [5] Peter Tillemans, one of the founders of the English school of sporting painting, was buried in St George's on 7 December 1734. [6]

Samuel Rickards was rector here for several decades in the mid nineteenth century. [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. [7]

Stowlangtoft Hall

Stowlangtoft Hall, built 1859 by David Mocatta, painted in 1880, by Francis Orpen Morris Stowlangtoft Hall, F. O. Morris volume 3, 1880.png
Stowlangtoft Hall, built 1859 by David Mocatta, painted in 1880, by Francis Orpen Morris

Sir Symonds D'Ewes, Bart., the eminent antiquary, lived in Stowlangtoft Hall. [5] The Hall was rebuilt in 1859 for Fuller Maitland Wilson. [8]

In 2011 a gruesome-looking tree in the grounds the hall attracted public attention. [8]

Notable residents

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References

  1. 1 2 Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Archived 2008-12-19 at the Wayback Machine Suffolk County Council
  2. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Ekwall, Eilert The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (4th ed., 1960) p. 448
  4. 1 2 Knott, Simon. "St George, Stowlangtoft". www.suffolkchurches.co.uk. Simon Knott. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 Stoven - Stowick, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 234-38 british-history.ac.uk, accessed 17 April 2009
  6. ↑ 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
  7. ↑ Suffolk Churches website, entry for Stowlangtoft, accessed 7 February 2013
  8. 1 2 Thewlis, Jo (14 June 2011). "Bury St Edmunds: Is the world's scariest tree lurking right here in Suffolk?". East Anglian Daily Times. Archant. Retrieved 6 December 2021.

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