Description
Lound, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, near the coast, 2 1/2 miles NNE of Somerleyton station on the G.E.R., and 4 1/2 NNW of Lowestoft. It has a post office under Lowestoft; money order office, Blundeston; telegraph office, Somerleyton. Acreage, 1263 ; population, 403. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £315 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Gothic style; comprises nave, chancel, and porch, with a round tower, and contains sedilia, a piscina, a very richly-carved oak altar, a Later English screen, and a sculptured octagonal font. There is also a Methodist New Connexion chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
