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Stowlangtoft is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk District of Suffolk in eastern England two miles southeast of Ixworth and around five miles northeast of Bury St. Edmunds. In the 2011 UK census its population was given as 228.
The village's name was originally just "Stow", but the land was held by the de Languetot family in the early 13th century, thus the ending.
For all of Stowlangtoft's small size, its parish church, St George's, is within the group classed as "Great Churches". It 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. The church and parsonage-house are located on what was once the site of a Roman encampment. Sir Symonds D'Ewes, Bart. (1602-1650), the eminent antiquary, lived in Stowlangtoft Hall. Peter Tillemans, one of the founders of the English school of sporting painting, was buried in St George's on 7 December 1734.
At some point after the Dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s, 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.
The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).
- STOWLANGTOFT, a parish in Stow [registration] district, Suffolk; 2½ miles SE of Ixworth, and 3¼ NE of Thurston [railway] station. Post town: Ixworth, under Bury St. Edmunds. Acres: 1,471. Real property: £2,029. Population: 204. Houses: 39. [Stowlangtoft] Hall was once the seat of the antiquary Sir S. D'Ewes, and of the Rawlinsons; and is now the seat of H. Wilson, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value: £307. Patron: H. Wilson, Esq. The church is of the 14th century, and good. There is a free school."
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Suffolk Information
- Suffolk Family History Society A community of people who are interested in the local and family history pertaining to Suffolk.
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