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From: "Geoffrey CLARKE" <>
Subject: Re: SUFFOLK-D Digest V99 #313
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 10:06:15 +1000


Peter Skehan,

The church at Cowlinge was St. Margaret.

A brief history is:

Church ST. MARGARET
(Chancel, nave, N & S aisles, N.
porch, W. tower)
1086 Church + 50 acres, 1/2 plough
1330 - 1340 Nave and aisles rebuilt using masonry from
earlier building
14th. cent. Main structure
circa 1400 Original roodscreen (with gates and
hinges) - remains
1618 plain wooden benches provided to west
and north aisle for inmates of local house of correction
17th cent. Tower collapsed, replaced 1713
1913 - 1914 Restoration
Seats: 150 feet of appropriated,
300 feet of free (1876)

FREE CHAPEL CHAPEL OF ST. MARGARET (late of
Swaffham Priory)
Founder unknown
Yearly value 3 pounds 6 s 8d.
held by master (1546)

In addition under "Nonconformity" there was:

an Independent chapel built (1835)
seats 330 (note: newly built chapel is mentioned in 1822
Primitive Methodist chapel built
(1859)
5 houses set aside for worship
(1819 - 1850)
"History of Cowlinge Congregational
Church" by J. Duncan (1968)

I hope these excerpts help


Best regards,

Geoffrey CLARKE

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