Heveningham


Kelly

HEVENINGHAM is a parish and village on the river Blyth, 5 miles south-west-by-west from Halesworth station on the Ipswich and Lowestoft section of London and North Eastern railway, in the Eye vision of the county, Blything hundred, petty sessional division and union, Halesworth and Saxmundham in county court district, rural deanery of South Dunwich, archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of St. Edundsbury and Ipswich. The church of St. Margaret is an ancient building of flint in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells: the church has a fine oak roof, with figures of the twelve apostles carved on the ends of the beams: there are several stained windows, including one to Rev, Henry Owen, rector from 1838: in the south aisle is a recumbent effigy of Sir Richard Heveningham date uncertain: a carved stone reredos was erected 1899 in memory of Lord and Lady Huntingfield (d.1897): a new organ was given in 1900 by the Hon. Anne and the Hon. Frances Vanneck, and in 1930 a memorial tablet was erected to the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18: the church was restored in 1866-7, and affords 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1550. the living is a rectory, net yearly value £467, including 40 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1909 by the Rev. Robert Dewe M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The parochial charities, of about £78 yearly value, were revised in 1858 by the Court of Chancery, and again in Jan. 1899, by the Charity Commissioners, and are applied to church purposes, the support of the schools, the relief of the poor and the maintenance of the highways. Heveningham Hall, the seat of Lord Huntingfield is a spacious mansion in the Classic style, begun in 1778 from the designs of Sir Robert Taylor, and completed from designs by James Wyatt, architect ; the principal front, nearly 300 feet in length, is adorned in the centre by columns of the Corinthian order, and otherwise richly embellished; the mansion is surrounded by a finely-timbered park of over 300 acres. Lord Huntingfield is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is heavy and very fertile; The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips, beans and some land in pasture. The area is 1,669 acres; the population in 1921 was 208.

Post Office. Letters through Halesworth. Peasenhall is the nearest M. O.& T. office
Carrier to Halesworth - Mrs Hennings, daily.

Dutt

Heveningham Hall (Lord Huntingfield ) is about 6 m. S.W. of Halesworth. It is a fine house, with a wide front in the Corinthian style, standing on an eminence overlooking the River Blythe, which here widens into a lake. It was built in 1778 near the site of an earlier home of the Heveningham family. The Heveninghams, according to Suckling, first emerge from obscurity in 1271, when the king granted to Sir Philip de Heveningham freewarren in his manor of Heveningham and elsewhere; but the family claim to be able to trace their descent from Galtir Heveningham, who was lord of the manor in the reign of Canute. The church appears to have been originally Dec., but is now mainly Perp. Note (1) the nave roof, which has figures of the apostles at the ends of the beams; (2) an oaken effigy of Sir John Heveningham, date about 1450; and (3) the chancel windows.

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