Raveningham, Norfolk

Description
Raveningham, a parish, with a scattered village, in Norfolk, 3 1/2 miles SE of Loddon, 3 1/2 N by E of Beccles station on the Ipswich and Yarmouth section, and 4 SW from Reedham station on the Norwich and Lowestoft section of the G.E.R. It has a post and money order office under Norwich; telegraph office, Loddon. Acreage, 2423; population, 301. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Bacon family. Raveningham Hall, their seat, is a mansion of red brick standing in a park of about 200 acres. A college for a master and eight secular priests was founded here in 1350 by Sir John de Norwich, went at the dissolution to Sir A. Derry, and passed to the Bacon family, of whom were Friar Bacon, Lord Keeper Bacon, and Lord Chancellor Bacon. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £100, in the gift of the Bacon family. The church, which stands in the park, is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a round embattled western tower. It contains several memorials of the Bacon family.