Kelly
LINSTEAD PARVA (or Lower) is a village and parish, 5 miles west from Halesworth station on the London and North Eastern line to Yarmouth, 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. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The church of St. Margaret is a small but ancient building of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret of wood containing one bell: in 1891 the church, was restored at a cost of about £350, and in 1895 the south porch was rebuilt at a further cost of about £30: there are 80 sittings. The register dates from the year 1540. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Linstead Magna and Chediston, joint net yearly value £350, and residence, in the gift of the Church Patronage Society, and held since 1927 by the Rev.David Twigg, of the London College of Divinity. The town estate, valued at £7 yearly, is applied to the repairs of the church. Lord Huntingfield is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil iis heavy with subsoil of clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, turnips and pasture. The area is 567 acres; the population in 1921 was 113. By Local Government Board Order, which came into operation March 1885, a detached part of Withersdale, in Hoxe union, was amalgamated with this parish.
Parish Clerk, James Hurren, sen.
Letters from Halesworth, which is the nearest M. O. office & Laxfield the nearest T. office
Dutt
Linstead Parva church (3 and a half m. W. of Halesworth) is E.E. The chancel is unaltered, except for a Perp. window in the S. wall and the chancel arch, which seems to have fallen with portions of the N. and S. walls of the nave. The E. window is a two-light with roll mouldings; there is a small lancet in the N. wall, and a larger one opposite, also a small door of the same date. Note also a lancet in the W. wall, with a niche on either side; some restored poppy-heads, and the font.
Church view
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