Stowlangtoft is a village and

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south-east from

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. Located around 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.

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

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, Bart., the eminent antiquary, lived in Stowlangtoft Hall. The Hall was rebuilt in 1859 for Fuller Maitland Wilson. 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, cricketer * Frank Chapman, priest and

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* Fuller Maitland Wilson (MP), *

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, army officer, son of Fuller Maitland Wilson * Samuel Rickards, clergyman, opponent of the

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* D'Ewes baronets

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