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WISSETT is a village and parish, a miles north-west from Halesworth station on the Iptwich and Lowestoft section of the London and North Eastern railway, in the Eye division of the county, Blything hundred, petty sessional division and union, Halesworth and Saxmnndham county court district, rural deanery of North Dunwich, archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of St.: Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient building of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a round tower, containing 6 bells: the doorway on the north side of the nave has a remarkably fine arch of Norman work enriched with zigzag mouldings. The south doorway and many other details are also Norman, but much of the window tracery is Perpendicular: the stained windows, with emblems of the Apostles, were presented by the late Sir W. E. 0. Hartopp bart. d. 1864, at a cost of £100: the church was re-roofed, re-seated and re-floored in 1924-5, at a cost of £1,000: there are 156 sittings. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Spexhall, joint net yearly value £403, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, who has two turns, and the Church Patronage Society, which has one turn, and held since 1929 by the Rev. Arthur Trousdale, of the London College of Divinity, who resides at Spexhall. The Congregational chapel was built in 1841. Bleach Farm is an old building surrounded by a moat. Wissett Hall is the residence of Walter Scrimgeour esq. H. O. Hollway-Calthrop esq. J.P. is lord of the manor and owner of about one-fourth of the land. The soil is mixed clay; subsoil, principally clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, oats and roots. The area is 0,181 acres; the population in 1921 was 349. By a Local Government Board Order, March 25th, 1884, some portions of this parish were amalgamated with Chediston.
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Wissett church (2 m. N.W. of Halesworth) has a round tower, Norm N. and S. doorways, and other remains of Norm. work.
Church view
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