Norfolk: Wheatacre All Saints

William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883

WHEATACRE ALL SAINTS is a parish of scattered houses, 4½ miles E.N.E. of Beccles and 12 miles S.S.W. of Yarmouth, in Loddon and Clavering union and petty sessional division, Beccles county court district, Yarmouth bankruptcy court district, Clavering hundred, Toft Monks polling district of South Norfolk, archdeaconry of Norfolk, and rural deanery of East Brooke.

It comprised 144 inhabitants in 1881, and has 1163A. 2R. 20P. of land, partly in low marshes near the river Waveney, which divides it from Suffolk. The rateable value is £1866. There are two manors, one belonging to Lord Bateman, and the other to the trustees of the late R.H. Gurney, Esq., who own a great part of the soil.

The CHURCH (All Saints) stands on an eminence commanding extensive prospects, and is a thatched edifice consisting of nave, chancel, chancel aisle, south porch, and square tower with one bell. The chancel was entirely restored and tiled in 1879, at a cost of £340, by the present rector. New windows were inserted, and the nave faced with flint in 1880, at a further cost of £180. The upper part of the screen remains, and in the chancel is a piscina. Here is also a harmonium, presented by the rector in 1859. The aisle, or mortuary chapel, contains an aumbry, and is separated from the chancel by two arches, now blocked up, under one of which is an altar tomb. The Sunday school is held in this part of the sacred edifice.

The discharged rectory, valued in the King's Book at £6. 6s. 5½d., is in the patronage of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. The Rev. William Henry Brown, M.A., is the incumbent, and has a good residence, about 70 acres of glebe, and a yearly tithe-rent charge of £224, awarded in 1840.

At the Enclosure, 8A. 3R. of marsh were awarded to the poor, and are now let for £16, which is distributed in coal.

The SCHOOL BOARD, established in 1875, consists of the Rev. William Henry Brown, M.A. (chairman), Rev. William Boycott, B.A. (vice-chairman), and Messrs. Samuel Gardiner, Thomas Morris, Daniel Triggs, John Mapleston, and William B. Mickelburgh. J.C. Copeman, Esq., of Loddon, is clerk to the Board. The BOARD SCHOOL was erected in 1877, at a cost of £1100, to accommodate 111 children, including twenty from the neighbouring parish of Aldeby.

POST from Beccles.

         Banns     George         farmer and builder
         Brown     Rev. William   rector, Rectory
                     Henry, M.A.
         Chaston   Chas.          vict. White Lion Inn
         Cooper    Edward         market gardener
         Eade      Mr. Robert
         Frost     Joseph         cowkeeper
         Gardiner  Samuel         farmer, The Hall
         Garrood   William        blacksmith, engineer,
                                    wheelwright, ironfounder, &c.
         Goffin    Geo.           wheelwright & carpenter
         Harling   William        sexton
         Mountain  Miss Susan     Board schlmstrs
         Oldman    William        marshman
 

See also the Wheatacre All Saints parish page.

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February 2000