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SEETHING, a well-built village, 9½ miles S.E. of Norwich, has in its parish 392 inhabitants, and 1630 acres of land, mostly belonging to Viscount Canterbury, of Brooke. It is in Loddon and Clavering union and petty sessional division, Beccles county court district, Yarmouth bankruptcy district, Loddon hundred, Loddon polling district of South Norfolk, East Brooke rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. The rateable value is £2906, and the gross rental £3171.
The CHURCH (St. Margaret) comprises nave, chancel, south porch, and round tower with three bells. The nave is thatched, and the chancel slated. The east window was filled with stained glass in 1861, at the expense of the late vicar, and contains figures of three of the Apostles. The base-panels of the chancel-screen were once richly gilt. The font is octagonal, and bears carvings of the seven sacraments and the baptism of our Lord. In the chancel is a piscina. The church was restored and reseated in 1861.
The living is a perpetual curacy, now in the incumbency of the Rev. Charles H. Hicks. The trustees of the Great Hospital, Norwich, are the patrons, and also impropriators of the great tithes, which were commuted in 1839 for £383, of which £125 a year go to the incumbent.
Near the old hall is a white brick pedestal, surmounted by a crocketed pinnacle and cross, and said to stand on the site of a chapel destroyed by the Danes in A.D. 584. In 1848 several human skulls and bones were dug up near it.
Here is a Voluntary School, with ample accommodation for the children of both the parishes of Seething and Mundham.
The Fuel Allotment is 2A. 1R. 18P., awarded at the enclosure in 1814, when the old Poor's Land was exchanged for 3R. 26P., and the rents, amounting to £10 10s. per annum, are given in money, coal, and bread to the poor, who have also three yearly rent-charges, viz.:- £3, left by Thomas Brooke in 1674; £1 10s., left by Thomas Spooner in 1630; and 20s., left by John Kerrison in 1753.
POST from Norwich, viâ Brooke.
Balls Fisher butcher Barrow Misses Julia & Mary Beverley Mrs Mary Ann The Grove Briggs John cucumber grower Canterbury Dowager Viscountess Old hall Clarke John blacksmith Clarke Jph. parish clerk and sexton Cossey George machine owner Crickmer William farmer and valuer, Manor farm Dodd Robt. Phillips frmr. & cattle dlr Drake Jno. carrier & cucumber grower Drake John, sen. farmer & fruit dlr England Charles market gardener Fairhead Richd. frmr. & vermin killer Garrard Jesse vict. Garden House Inn; and fruit dealer Grimmer Miss Ellen Hicks Rev. Chas. vicar of Mundham-with-Seething, Hocking The Vicarage Laurance John shopkeeper Loynes Last grocer, drpr. & postmastr Reynolds Richd. C. frmr. Church farm Sabberton Miss Jessie schoolmistress Sutton Hon. Mabel Manners Old hall Thompson Miss Hannah M. Old hall Tibbenham Uriah Chamberlain farmer and surveyor, Seething house Tidnam William wheelwright, carpenter, and shopkeeper Trower Charles shoemaker Winter John farmerCARRIER to Norwich, John Drake, jun., Wed. and Sat.
Copyright © Pat Newby.
August 2009