GREAT BRICETT
"GREAT BRICETT, a parish in the hundred of Bosmere and Claydon, in the county of Suffolk, 4 miles to the S.W. of Needham Market. Bildeston is its post town. It lies near the Great Eastern railway, Claydon being the nearest station. In this parish was formerly a priory of the Augustine order, founded by Ralph Fitz-Brian about the year 1110, which was given with the manor by Henry VI. to the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge, in 1426. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Norwich, value £110, in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to SS. Mary and Lawrence.
Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson © 2003
Cemeteries
- St Mary and St Lawrence, The Street, Church of England
Census
Church History
Descriptions and photographs of churches in the parish may be found in Simon Knott's Suffolk Churches.Church Records
- Churches in Great Bricett:
- St Leonard's Priory, The Street [remains], Augustinian
- St Mary and St Lawrence, The Street, Church of England
You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Great Bricett area that are recorded in the GENUKI church database. This will also help identify churches in nearby townships and/or parishes. You also have the option to see the location of the churches marked on a map.
If you keep this page loaded for a very long time and the database is updated since loading it, the church links above may become stale and may display the wrong church. If this happens, reloading this page will correct them.
Description and Travel
You can see pictures of Great Bricett which are provided by:Gazetteers
Ask the GENUKI Gazetteer for a calculation of the distance from Great Bricett to another place.Historical Geography
- Details of the administrative areas of which Great Bricett has been a part can be seen in Vision of Britain, which contains details of historic boundaries, and more about this place.
Maps
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TM038506 (Lat/Lon: 52.116100, 0.975238), Great Bricett which are provided by:- StreetMap
- Open StreetMap
- Bing (was Multimap)
- OldMaps
- Old Maps Online
- Vision of Britain
- English Jurisdictions in 1851
- Magic
- Elgin Road Works
- GeoHack
- All places within the same township/parish shown on a Google map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on a Google map.
- Nearby places shown on a Google map.
- This place shown on a Google map.
- Google Streetview
