Fressingfield, Suffolk

Description
Fressingfield, a large village and a parish in Suffolk, 4 miles S by E of Harleston station on the G.E.R., and about 10 W by N of Halesworth, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Harleston. Acreage of the civil parish,, 4618; population, 1086; of the ecclesiastical, 1250. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Withersdale, in the diocese of Norwich; joint yearly value, ££466 with residence. Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church is a fine building of flint and stone, chiefly in the Decorated style, has a tower and a porch, and contains a brass of 1489, and a tomb of Archbishop Sancroft. The oak benches in the church are regarded as specimens of the best Late Mediaeval wood-carving, especially one with the emblems of the Passion. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels. Archbishop Sancroft was a native and also died here. Samuel Vince, professor of astronomy at Cambridge from 1796 to 1822, was born here. Caterpole Green, Chepenhall Green, Hussey Green, andUfford Green are adjacent hamlets.