Stowlangtoft is a village and

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in the

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district of

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in eastern

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two miles south-east from

Ixworth Ixworth is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, north-east of Bury St Edmunds on the A143 road to Diss and south-east of Thetford. The parish had a population of 2,365 at the 2011 Census. History Ix ...

. Located around five miles north-east of

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, in 2005 its population was 270.

Name

The village, originally just Stow, was held by the de Languetot family in the early 13th century.

St George's Church

For all of Stowlangtoft's small size, St George's is within the group classed as "Great Churches".

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included it in his book ''England's Thousand Best Churches''. The church was built as a single construction project in the late 14th century and barely changed until the restoration work undertaken in the 19th century. The church is in the decorated and later English styles; the chancel contains several richly-carved stalls and monuments to members of the family of D'Ewes.Stoven - Stowick, ''A Topographical Dictionary of England'' (1848), pp. 234-38
british-history.ac.uk, accessed 17 April 2009 The church and parsonage-house are located on what was once the site of a Roman encampment.

Peter Tillemans Peter Tillemans ( 1684 – 5 December 1734)Noakes, Aubrey, ''Sportsmen in a Landscape'' (Ayer Publishing, 1971, )pp. 47–56: ''Peter Tillemans and Early Newmarket''at books.google.com, accessed 7 February 2009. ONDB writes: "In 1733 Tillemans re ...

, one of the founders of the English school of sporting painting, was buried in St George's on 7 December 1734.

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was rector here for several decades in the mid nineteenth century. At some point after the Dissolution of the monasteries, St George's acquired six 14th-century

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s. It is not clear where these misericords originated, but possible candidates are

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.Suffolk Churches website, entry for Stowlangtoft
accessed 7 February 2013

Stowlangtoft Hall

Sir Symonds D'Ewes Sir Simonds d'Ewes, 1st Baronet (18 December 1602 – 18 April 1650) was an English antiquary and politician. He was bred for the bar, was a member of the Long Parliament and left notes on its transactions. D'Ewes took the Puritan side in the Ci ...

, Bart., the eminent antiquary, lived in Stowlangtoft Hall. The Hall was rebuilt in 1859 for

Fuller Maitland Wilson Fuller Maitland Wilson (27 August 1825 – 4 September 1875) was a British Conservative Party politician. Heath was elected MP for the Western Division of Suffolk at a by-election in 1875, but died under three months later. During his life, ...

. In 2011 a gruesome-looking tree in the grounds the hall attracted public attention.

Notable residents

* Thomas Rawlinson,

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in 1753 *

Charles Wombwell Charles Orby Wombwell (3 April 1813 – 14 September 1898) was an English first-class cricketer. Wombwell was born at Stowlangtoft, Suffolk in April 1813, the son of Sir George Wombwell and his wife Eliza Little. He played in two first-class ...

, cricketer * Frank Chapman, priest and

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(MP), *

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, army officer, son of Fuller Maitland Wilson *

, clergyman, opponent of the

Oxford Movement The Oxford Movement was a movement of high church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the University of O ...

D'Ewes baronets The d'Ewes Baronetcy, of Stowlangtoft Hall in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 15 July 1641 for the antiquary and politician Sir Simonds d'Ewes. He was the son of Paul d'Ewes (d.1624), whose mura ...

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