Kelly
MIDDLETON-cum-FORDLEY is a parish and village on the river Minsmere, 3 miles south-east from Darsham station on the Ipswich and Lowestoft section of the London and North Eastern railway, 5 north-east from Saxmundham and 8 south-by-east 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 South Dunwich, archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The church of Holy Trinity is an old building of flint with stone dressings and a thatched roof, in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and embattled western tower, which contains 5 bells and is surmounted by a spire: the church was externally faced with flint and otherwise restored in 1864: a stained window was placed in the chancel in 1877 in memory of the Rev. Joseph White, a former rector: there is an ancient piscina, a small organ and an ancient carved stone font: the porch has a very perfect Norman arch, and in the aisle are several brasses, including one to Anthony Pettow, 1610: the church affords 216 sittings, mostly appropriated. The register dates from the year 1653. The living of Middleton-cum-Fordley is a discharged rectory, joint net value £350, including 12 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Church Patronage Society, and held since 1903 by the Rev. John Manly Savery M.A. of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. Fordley church stood in the same churchyard, but no vestige now remains. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. There is a men's club and a women's institute in the village. The charities amount to about £20 yearly. The trustees of the late Henry Montagu Doughty esq. who are lords of the manors of Middleton-cum-Fordley and Middleton Chickering, Edmund Robert Hollond esq. J.P. the trustees of the late Robert Flick esq. Samuel A. Flick esq. and the trustees of the late Dr. Randall are the principal landowners. The soil is mixed; subsoil, 2,041 acres; the population in 1921 was 506. .'o'oo.
Fordley, an adjoining hamlet, was once a separate parish, but is now united with Middleton, and the parish is called Middleton-cum-Fordley.
Sexton, Mrs. Elizabeth Harper.
Post Office. Letters from Saxmundham, via Yoxford. Westleton is the nearest
Dutt
Middleton church (3 m. S.E. of Darsham) has Norm. N. and S. doorways. Note also (1) the font; and (2) some brasses. This church was served by the monks of Leiston (2 m. distant); the house they inhabited is now occupied by the parish clerk. The church of the parish of Fordley (now united with Middleton) stood in Middleton churchyard.
Church view
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