Kelly
RUMBURGH is a parish and village, 5 miles southeast from Homersfield station on the Waveney Valley branch of the London and North Eastern railway, 4 north-west from Halesworth and 6 south from Bungay, in the Eye division of the county, Blything hundred, union and petty sessional division, Halesworth and Saxmundham county court district, rural deanery of North Dnnwich, archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The church of St. Michael and St. Felix is an old and curiously built edifice of flint, in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a low western tower containing 5 bells: there are 130 sittings. The register dates from the year 1555. The living is a vicarage, consolidated with that of South Elmham St. Michael, joint net yearly value £75, with residence, in the gift of the. representatives of the late Rev. Percival Frost M.A, formerly vicar (1868-77), and held since 1895 by the Rev. William Linton Wilson M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, who resides in that part of Rumburgh village which ii within the parish of All Saints, South Elmham. The church, stands in what was a Roman camp, and is still surrounded by the Roman fosse. There is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel here. Here was formerly a priory of the Benedictine order, first founded by the monks of Hulme Abbey in 1064, as a cell to that house, and afterwards transferred by Stephen or Alan, Earl of Richmond and Bretagne, to the abbey of St. Maryat, York; it was dedicated to St. Michael and St. Felix, and at the Dissolution was valued at £10; the tower remains: in the church there is a list of the Priors from 1064 to the Dissolution under Cardinal Wolsey in September, 1528, and a list of the vicars from 1559 to the present day. The town lands consist of47 acres, which, together with other property, yield about £83 yearly; these funds are applied to the repair of the church and coals for the poor. The chief landowner is Sir Robert Shafto bart. D.L., J. P. The soil is clay, with subsoil of clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and turnips. The area is 1,538 acres; the population in 1921 was 293 in the civil and 419 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Parish Clerk, George Holland.
Post & T. Office. Letters through Halesworth, which is the nearest M. O. office.
Dutt
Rumburgh (4 m. N.W. of Halesworth).Between 1064 and 1070 a monastery was founded here by the monks of St Benet's Abbey in Norfolk, and afterwards given as a cell to the abbey of St Mary at York by Alan le Noir, Earl of Richmond and Bretagne. In 1528 the Abbot of York complained that officers of Cardinal Wolsey had visited Rumburgh Priory and plundered it; but in spite of his complaint the priory was annexed to Wolsey's college at Ipswich. The church here is of interest on account of its possessing the remains of a fine E.E. tower with a W. doorway and three lancets.
Church view
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