Rushbrooke, Suffolk

Description
Rushbrooke, a parish in Suffolk, on the river Lark, 3 1/2 miles SE of Bury St Edmunds railway station. Post town, Bury St Edmunds. Acreage, 1063; population, 136. The manor belonged to Bury Abbey, passed to the Jermyns, and with Rushbrooke Hall belongs now to the Rushbrooke family. The Hall is a splendid moated mansion, forms three sides of a quadrangle, is partly of the time of King John, partly of that of Elizabeth, contains a drawing-room in which Elizabeth held courts in 1578, includes an old chapel now used as a billiard-room, and stands in an extensive and well-wooded park. The parish is a meet for the Suffolk hounds. The living is a rectory, annexed to Bradfield, in the diocese of Ely. The church has a richly decorated nave, a S aisle, a chancel, and a tower, and contains monuments of the Jermyns and the Rushbrookes.