Kelly
PEASENHALL is a parish and large village on the river Minsmere, 4 miles west from Darsham station on the Ipswich and Lowestoft section of the London and North Eastern railway, 7 north-east from Framlingham and 7 south-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 South Dunwich, archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The church of St. Michael is a building principally of flint, quoined with stone, in the Gothic style, and consists of chancel, nave, north, porch and an embattled tower with four pinnacles and containing 6 bells and a clock, placed by public subscription in 1899 as a memorial of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria: the nave and chancel were taken down and rebuilt in 1860 and 1861 at the expense of J. W. Brooke esq. of Sibton Park (d. 1881),who also placed two stained windows in the chancel; the tower was at the same time repaired and heightened: at the west end is a stained window, given by Mr. Thomas White, many years churchwarden: the reredos is a memorial to William White: a new organ was presented in 1894 by R. A. M. Smyth esq.: there are 300 sittings, most of which are unappropriated: in the churchyard is a marble obelisk, erected in 1877 by James Smyth esq. to his wife, and bearing a medallion portrait. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £340, with 22 acres of glebe and residence, erected in 1873 at a cost of £1,473, in the gift of the Church Pastoral Aid Society, and held since 1926 by the Rev, Samuel Woodard Chorlton M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels, and the Brethren have a preaching room. The cemetery, 1.5 acres in extent, is now under, the control of the Parish Council. The extensive corn and seed drill works of Messrs. J. Smyth and Sons Limited, the original inventors of the Suffolk drill, are in this parish, and were established about 1800. The Assembly Rooms are used for parochial meetings and public entertainments. The Mechanics' Institute, with reading room, was established in 1857. Peasenhall United Charities amount to about £10 yearly; and are distributed by trustees to widows and aged persons under the scheme of the Charity Commissioners, dated 1910; the Church lands, consisting of three enclosures of pasture land and cottage allotments in alms-house was built In 1891 by E. L. Scrivener esq. for a few aged persons. Capt. Egerton B. B. Levett-Scrivener K.N. (ret.), J.P. who is lord of the manor, the Earl of Stradbroke K.C.M.G.,C.B.,C.V.O.,C.B.E. and Lt.-Col. James. Alexander Clarke J.P. are the principal landowners. The soil is heavy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, peas and roots. The parish contains 2,184 acres; the population in 1921 was 676 in the civil and 659 in the ecclesiastical parish. By a Local Government Board Provisional Order, which came into operation, in 1885, a detached part of Sibton was amalgamated with this parish.
Parish Clerk, William Paternoster.
Post, M. O.T.& T. E. D. Office. Letters through Saxmundham
Carrier to Darsham- Joseph Dix, daily.
Dutt
Peasenhall (4 m. W. of Darsham) is a rather large and pleasant village on the little River Minsmere. Its church was, with the exception of the tower (Perp.), rebuilt in 1861.
Church view
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