Description
Rendham, a pleasant village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands on an affluent of the river Aide, 3 miles NW by W of Saxmundham station on the G.E.R., and has a post office under Saxmundham; money order and telegraph office, Saxmundham. The parish comprises 1736 acres; population, 336. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £78 with residence. The church was restored in 1852 and reseated in 1865, and is a building of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, N porch, and an embattled western tower. It has a very fine carved oak roof and a carved oak pulpit of 1632. There is an endowed Congregational chapel with burial-ground and minister's residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
