Stowlangtoft

Stowlangtoft
Church of St George
Stowlangtoft is located in Suffolk
Stowlangtoft
Stowlangtoft
Location within Suffolk
Population270 (2005)[1]
228 (2011)[2]
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBury St Edmunds
Postcode districtIP31
PoliceSuffolk
FireSuffolk
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52°16′37″N 0°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]

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

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

References

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b Knott, Simon. "St George, Stowlangtoft". www.suffolkchurches.co.uk. Simon Knott. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  5. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b 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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