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COli:MERCU.L. 1 Pape John, farm bailiff to Sir Hugh Beevor S1r Hugh Re<>ve bart. M. D., Brothers Arthur, gamekeeper to L. R. Beevor bart. Hall farm ~ F.R.C.P. Hargham hall Robinson esq Smith Shadrach, farmer, Swangey frm Howlett George, farmer, South farm HARLESTON or REDENHALL-with-HARLESTON. HARLESTON is a market town, on the north bank of designs by Mr. R. M. Phipson F.S.A. architect, of the river Waveney, and on the borders of Suffolk, and is , and consists of apsidal chancel nave of four the head of a county court district, with a station on the bays, aisles and transepts : there are a nun'Iber of stained Waveney Valley branch of the Great Eastern railway, 19 windows, including memorial windows to the late W. miles south from Norwich, 10 north-east from Diss, and :M. Hazard esq. who died in r883, and to Charles his 99 from London, in the Southern division of the county, brother, d. 1872: the baptistery window was erected Depwade union, hundred and petty sessional by Mrs. Hazard and others in 1887: the seats are of division, parish and rural deanery of Redenhall, arch­ handsomely carved oak and the reredos of alabaster : deaconry of and dioce;;e of Norwich. That part there are 430 sittings, half being unappropriated. The of the parish of Mendham which is in the county of . Congregational chapPl is a structure of red brick, re· Norfolk was added to Harleston for civil purposes 25 I built in 1886, at a cost of £8oo, on the site of an older March, 1885. The town is lighted with gas from works chapel, founded in 1706: the chapel is endowed with erected in 1840 and belonging to Mrs. E. Chappell, and £25 yearly, from a farm at , left by James is supplied with water from springs. The church of St. Whiting of , in 1774, and the poor attending Mary, at Redenhall, about a mile from the town, is an this chapel have also the interest of £100 left by the edifice, chiefly of flint with stone dressings, in the Gothic late William Hanworth: there are sittings for 450 per­ style, and was rebuilt by Thomas Plantagenet, surnamed sons. The Wesleyan chapel wa~ erected in 18g6. The "de Brotherton," eldest son of Edward I. and Earl of 1 Corn Hall was erected in 1849: a market for corn is Norfolk, the chancel being the work of William de l\" en­ held every Wednesday, and is well attended; the Hall port, who was presented to the rectory in I3II, and is is also let for lectures,_ entertainments &c. The sub­ buried here : it consists of chancel, nave, aisles, north scription reading-room, established at the Corn Hall ill porch and a lofty embattled western tower with pinnacles, 1872, was removed to premises formerly the Old Red begun in 1460, and containing 8 bells; the tower, m­ Lion inn, purchased in 1884 by the late Henry L. Hud­ jured by lightning in 1616, has been braced together; son and vested by him in trustees for its present pur­ subsequently one of the pinnacles was struck by lightning pose : the reading-room is well supplied with the Londo-n and rebuilt, but was again destroyed from the same and local newspapers and magazines, and has a room cause on January 21, 1834, and restored anew: the fine for billiards, chess, draughts, cards and other games. organ was erected in 1841, and there are memorial Repository sales for all kinds of live and dead stock are windows to the late Ven. Archdeacon Ormerod, rector held on alternatP Wednesdays by Messrs. George here 1847-74, d. Dec. 2, 1874, and others, and to Mary Durrant and Sons. There is a small hosiery manufac­ Susan his wife; in the north chapel is a handsome tory. The charities ammmt to about £r8 yearly. In monument with arms to John Wogan, of Gawdy Hall, d. 1871 the Rev. Samuel Titlow, of Norwich, left £8oo May 31, 1778; Elizabeth his wife and several other mem­ in trust to the rectors o-f Redenhall and , bers of their family: there are also tablets to Thomas the interest to be devoted chiefly to the apprenticing Penrice; John Kerrich, d. 1757; Simon Kerrich, d. of poor boys of these parishes, four-fifths being allotted 1748; Elizabeth Wogan, d. 1728; Offiey Smith, d. 1777; w the former and t!he remaining fifth to the latter and to John Oldershaw B.D. sr years archdeacon of Nor­ parish. Gawdy Hall, an ancient mansion in the folk, and rector of this parish, d. Jan. 31, 1847, and .Anne Elizabethan style, pleasantly situated in a well-wooded his wife : the church was completely restored and l"P.­ park and partly surrounded by a moat, is the seat of seated in r858, and the chancel new roofed in r864, by John San~roft Holmes esq. M.A., D.L., J.P.: the hall the Ven. Thomas Johnson Ormerod M.A. rector here took its name from the Gawdy family, who formerly 1847-74 and sometime Archdeacon of Suffolk: in 1897 a resided here, and is supposed to have been built by carved oak reredos and an organ gallery were erected : Sir Thomas Gawdie kt. in the latter part of the 16th during the progress of this work a beautiful Jacobean century : from the Gawdys it descended to the W ogans, monument of the Frere family was discovered : there are and since to the present owner, by whom it has been 750 sittings, 375 being unappropriated. The register restored and improved. William Henry Hazard esq. is dates from the year rssB. The living is a rectory, lord of the manor of Harleston, and J. S. Holmes esq. annexed to Redenhall, joint net income, £699, with 28 is lord of the manors of Redenhall, Holbrook, other­ acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Duke of wise Alburgh, Hawkers and Coldham with Redenhall. Norfolk K.G. on the nomination of the Bishop of Nor­ The principal landowners are J. Sancroft Holmes esq. wich, and held since 1874 by the Rev. Thomas Thoma­ M.A., D.L., J.P. and Sir Frederick Edward S. Adair son Perowne B.D. late fellow of Corpus Christi College, hart. J.P. The soil is mixed; S'llbsoil, clay. The chief Cambridge. The chuoch of St. John the Baptist, crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area of Reden­ Broad street, which oocupies a site given by the late hall with Harleston civil parigh is 3,379 acres of land W. M. Hazard esq. of this town, and was opened 23 and. 13 of water; rateable value, £9,239; the population June, 1872, is a building of stone and cut flint, in m 1901 was 2,001. the Decorated style of the time of Edward II. from Parish Clerk & Sexton, William Dowling. OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Offi<:e.­ Parcel Mail~. Mrs. Ellen Maria Brooke, postmistress & stamp dis­ London, Norwich & other parts, 9.30 a.m.; Ipswich, tributor. 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