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Ixworth in Suffolk County England History and GeographyIXWORTH, a parish (formerly a market town) in the hundred of BLACKBOURN, county of SUFFOLK, 7 miles (N.E.) from Bury-St. Edmund's, and 77 (N.E. by N.) from London, containing 952 inhabitants. This place, anciently called Gisworth, at the time of the Norman survey belonged to the family of Le Blund; and about the year 1100 a priory of Augustine canons, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was founded here by Gilbert le Blund, the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was £204. 9. 5¼. The town derived its principal importance, if not its origin, from this convent, on the site of which has been erected the manor house, in which some of the arches and other parts of the priory crypt may still be traced. The town is pleasantly situated on the high road from Bury to Norwich and Yarmouth, and is a considerable thoroughfare: it is neither lighted nor paved, but is sufficiently supplied with water from wells. The market, now disused, was held on Friday: a small fair is still held on May 13th. The magistrates hold petty sessions here weekly; and courts leet and baron are held occasionally for the manor. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, and in the patronage of Richard Norton Cartwright, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a small structure, chiefly in the early style of English architecture; within is an altar-tomb under an arch, with sculptured brasses and an inscription. A charity school for boys, and another for girls, are endowed with the moiety of a benefaction of £1000 three per cent. consols., by William Varey, Esq., who appropriated the other moiety to the poor: there are also some minor charitable benefactions. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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