Chediston


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CHEDISTON is a village and parish, a miles west from Halesworth, in the Eye division of the county, Blything hundred, petty sessional division and union, Halesworth and Saxmundham county court district, rural deanery of North Dunwich, archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of St. Edmundsbnry and Ipswich. The church of St. Mary is a plain but ancient building of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower contaiM Tuck, of Halesworth, and in 1906 a fifth bell was added in memory of the Misses Tuck: the font is ancient and of octagonal form, with carved figures on its- sides and at the base: the church was restored in 1895, at a cost of £600, and affords 150 sittings: a bell was added in 1911 at a cost of £50, in commemoration of the coronation of King George V. and Queen Mary. The register dates from the year 1630. The living is a vicarage, consolidated with the vicarage of Linstead Msgna and Linstead Parva, joint, net yearly value £350, and a residence at Linstead Parva, in the gift of the Church Patronage Society, and held since 1927 by the Rev. David Twigg, of the London College of Divinity, who resides at Linstead Parva. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1863. The Town farm, which was left for the repairs and expenses of the church, has now been sold; the money invested brings in about £44 yearly. Sagar's charity of £1 yearly, derived from land at Cookley, is given to twenty of the oldest poor belonging to the parish; Smith's charity, amounting to about £10 10s. per year, is given away in flour at Christmas. Almshouses for five poor persons, erected by Henry Claxton in 1575, were rebuilt in 1832. Chediston Hall, the residence of Eugene F. L. Leguen de Lacroix esq. is a mansion in the Elizabethan style, with pinnacled towers and an embattled parapet, and is situated on elevated ground in a pleasant park. The Grange is surrounded by a moat. Eugene Francois Louis de Leguen de Lacroix esq. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil in the valley is gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, turnips, mangold-wurtzel, and some land is in pasture. The area is 2,496 acres; the population in 1921 was 256.

Parish Clerk, Samuel Cady.
Post Office. Letters through Halesworth, which is the nearest M. O. & T. office

Dutt

Chediston (2 m. W. of Halesworth) The church here was originally E.E. It has a good Perp. font, some old wood carving, and a window with a shield of arms in the S. wall of the chancel. Note also (1) the l5th-cent. nave roof; (2) a fine 17th-cent.. altar table; and (3) two old chests. The Hall is an Elizabethan house; it has pinnacled towers and an embattled parapet

Church view
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