Wenham Magna

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Wenham Magna
St. John's church, Great Wenham, Suffolk - geograph.org.uk - 213446.jpg
St. John's Church
Wenham Magna is located in Suffolk
Wenham Magna
Wenham Magna
 Wenham Magna shown within Suffolk
Population 150 [1]
District Babergh
Shire county Suffolk
Region East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police Suffolk
Fire Suffolk
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
List of places
UK
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Wenham Magna, also known as Great Wenham, is a village and a civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk in eastern England.

The parish also contains the hamlets of Gipsy Row,[2] Vauxhall and Wenham Hill. In 2005 it had a population of 150.[1]

Wenham Magna is the birthplace of Matthew Hopkins, the infamous witchfinder general.[3][4][5] His father, James Hopkins, was a Puritan clergyman and vicar of St John's church[5][6] The family at one point held title "to lands and tenements in Framlingham 'at the castle'".[7][8] James Hopkins was popular with his parishioners, one of whom in 1619 left money to purchase Bibles for his then three children James, John and Thomas.[4]

St John's church

The parish church of St John is a Grade II* listed building.[9]

The chancel is 14th-century with a later, timber-franed, south porch. There is a 14th-century nave with north and south porches and a 15th-century west tower of flint with stone dressings. The rest of the church is plastered with only the stone windows exposed. The church has red plain tiled roofs.[9]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Suffolk County Council
  2. Philip's Street Atlas Suffolk, 2007 edition. p150
  3. Gaskill 2005: p. 9
  4. 4.0 4.1 Deacon 1976: p. 13
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  6. Deacon 1976: pp. 13, 17
  7. Gaskill 2005: p. 23; Deacon 1976: p. 17; quoting James Hopkins' last will and testament
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Bibliography

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