Stowlangtoft
{{Short description|Village in Suffolk, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|official_name=Stowlangtoft
|coordinates = {{coord|52.277|0.874|display=inline,title}}
| population = 270
| population_ref = (2005)[http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/38314C3E-02A0-4515-92FE-8909C6FDB3A3/0/Parishestimates01to05.pdf Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219023551/http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/38314C3E-02A0-4515-92FE-8909C6FDB3A3/0/Parishestimates01to05.pdf |date=2008-12-19 }} Suffolk County Council
228 (2011){{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11129208&c=Stowlangtoft&d=16&e=62&g=6466308&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1472395807859&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=28 August 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}
|shire_district= Mid Suffolk
|shire_county = Suffolk
|region= East of England
|constituency_westminster=
|post_town= Bury St Edmunds
|postcode_district = IP31
|postcode_area= IP
|dial_code=
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|static_image = Stowlangtoft - Church of St George.jpg
|static_image_width = 140px
|static_image_caption= Church of St George
}}
Stowlangtoft is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England {{convert|2|mi|km}} south-east from Ixworth. Located around {{convert|5|mi|km}} north-east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 270.
Name
The village, originally just Stow, was held by the de Languetot family in the early 13th century.Ekwall, Eilert The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (4th ed., 1960) p. 448
St George's Church
For all of Stowlangtoft's small size, St George's is within the group classed as "Great Churches". Simon Jenkins included it in his book England's Thousand Best Churches.{{cite web |last1=Knott |first1=Simon |title=St George, Stowlangtoft |url=http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stowlangtoft.htm |website=www.suffolkchurches.co.uk |publisher=Simon Knott |access-date=6 December 2021}} The church was built as a single construction project in the late 14th century and barely changed until the restoration work undertaken in the 19th century. The church is in the decorated and later English styles; the chancel contains several richly-carved stalls and monuments to members of the family of D'Ewes.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51311 Stoven - Stowick, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 234-38] british-history.ac.uk, accessed 17 April 2009 The church and parsonage-house are located on what was once the site of a Roman encampment. Peter Tillemans, one of the founders of the English school of sporting painting, was buried in St George's on 7 December 1734.Noakes, Aubrey, Sportsmen in a Landscape (Ayer Publishing, 1971, {{ISBN|0-8369-2005-8}}), [https://books.google.com/books?id=tnEy0rkV0YEC&pg=PA47 pp. 47–56: Peter Tillemans and Early Newmarket] at books.google.com, accessed 7 February 2009
Samuel Rickards was rector here for several decades in the mid nineteenth century.
At some point after the Dissolution of the monasteries, St George's acquired six 14th-century misericords. It is not clear where these misericords originated, but possible candidates are Thetford Priory or Bury Abbey.[http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stowlangtoft.htm Suffolk Churches website, entry for Stowlangtoft], accessed 7 February 2013
Stowlangtoft Hall
File:Stowlangtoft Hall, F. O. Morris volume 3, 1880.png, painted in 1880, by Francis Orpen Morris ]]
Symonds D'Ewes, Bart., the eminent antiquary, lived in Stowlangtoft Hall. The Hall was rebuilt in 1859 for Fuller Maitland Wilson.{{cite web |last1=Thewlis |first1=Jo |title=Bury St Edmunds: Is the world's scariest tree lurking right here in Suffolk? |url=https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/bury-st-edmunds-is-the-world-s-scariest-tree-lurking-2010418 |website=East Anglian Daily Times |publisher=Archant |access-date=6 December 2021 |language=en-UK |date=14 June 2011}}
In 2011 a gruesome-looking tree in the grounds the hall attracted public attention.
Notable residents
- Thomas Rawlinson, Lord Mayor of London in 1753
- Charles Wombwell, cricketer
- Frank Chapman, priest and Archdeacon of Sudbury
- Fuller Maitland Wilson (MP),
- Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson, army officer, son of Fuller Maitland Wilson
- Samuel Rickards, clergyman, opponent of the Oxford Movement
- D'Ewes baronets
References
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External links
- [http://suffolk.activeboard.com/t15829723/stowlangtoft/ Photos]
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Category:Civil parishes in Suffolk
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