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CRATFIELD is a wide parish and village, on one of the tributaries of the river Blyth, 7 miles west-by-south from Halesworth railway station, in the Eye division of the county, Blything hundred, petty sessional division and union, Halesworth and Saxmundham county court district, South Dunwich rural deanery, Suffolk archdeaconry and diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The church of St. Mary in an ancient structure of plastered flint in the Perpendicular style,. consisting of chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles, south porch and an embattled tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells: the font is carved with representations of the Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church: there are two old oak lecturns and a curious old oak chest: the church was restored in 1879 at a cost of £1,150, and affords 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1539. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £130, including 12 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Simeon trustees, and held since 1917 by the Rev.Thomas Samuel England, of Church Missionary College, Islington, who is also rector of Ubbeston. The Congregational chapel, built in 1812, has sittings for 300 persons, and attached is a burial ground and a Sunday School for about 80 children. The town estates are of £123 yearly value, less taxes and rates. Leman's charity, founded in 1805 by Miss Leman, and originally consisting of £600, is now represented by Consols valued at £933 6s. 8d. producing £27 6s. 8d. yearly, of which £7 15s. 6d. is for the support of a Church of England Sunday school here, similar sums being allotted for this purpose to the parishes of Brampton and Redisham. Lord Huntingfield is lord of the manor. Mr. Newson Symonds is the principal landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil, the same. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and turnips. The area is 2,127 acres; the population in 1921 was 404.
Clerk and Sexton, William Collins.
Post & M. 0. Office. Letters through Halesworth. Laxfield is the nearest T. office
Dutt
Cratfield (7 m. W. by S. of Halesworth).The church is chiefly Dec., but with Perp. windows. Note (l) the nave roof; (2) a N. chantry, now used as a vestry; (3) a fine old chest; (4) two old lecterns; ( 5 ) the remains of a screen; and (6) a fine and lofty font.
Church view
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