St Margaret South Elmham
| St Margaret South Elmham | |
| Suffolk | |
|---|---|
 Church of St Margaret | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TM314839 |
| Location: | 52°24’14"N, 1°24’4"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 100 (2005 est.) |
| Post town: | Harleston |
| Postcode: | IP20 |
| Dialling code: | 01986 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Suffolk |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Waveney |
St Margaret South Elmham is a little village in northern Suffolk; in the midst of the group of seven villages southwest of Bungay known as South Elmham, and part of the wider group known as "The Saints".
St Margaret is the largest of the South Elmham villages, stretching for half a mile or so along the curving road between Homersfield and Halesworth. It lies a little east of St Cross, strung all along a single lane running across the fen between St Cross and All Saints. St James, a tiny hamlet, is just to the south.
The parish is known as South Elmham St Margaret. Its church, St Margaret, is a delightful parish church. It has a Norman south doorway, and a 14th-century tower, as do other of the churches of its sister villages. It underwent a Victorian restoration by Phipson in the 1870s. In the porch stand the old village stocks, now out of use.
South Elmham Hall, a medieval moated site and former palace of the Bishop of Norwich, is on the eastern edge of the parish, extending into St Cross South Elmham. The site is a scheduled monument and the hall a Grade I listed building.[1]
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1017674: Moated site and associated fishponds of a bishop's palace at South Elmham Hall (Scheduled ancient monument entry)