RINGSHALL
"RINGSHALL, a parish in the hundred of Bosmere, county Suffolk, 5 miles from Stowmarket, its post town, and 48 S.W. of Needham Market railway station. The village, which is straggling, is wholly agricultural. The soil is chiefly clayey. The framework of the Royal Exchange, built by Sir Thomas Gresham, was made here and in the adjoining parish of Battisford. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £562 10s., and there are 93 acres of glebe. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Norwich, value £505, in the patronage of Pembroke College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Catherine, has a square tower, the upper part of which has been damaged by lightning. W. Adair, Esq., is lord of the manor. Fossils of the Saurian and other extinct species have been found here."
Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson © 2003
Cemeteries
- St Catherine, Stowmarket Road, 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 Ringshall:
- General Baptist Chapel, Lower Farm Road-Ringshall Stocks, Baptist
- St Catherine, Stowmarket Road, Church of England
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Description and Travel
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- Details of the administrative areas of which Ringshall has been a part can be seen in Vision of Britain, which contains details of historic boundaries, and more about this place.
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