Description
Barsham, a parish in Wangford union, Suffolk, near the river Waveney, 2 miles W by S of Beccles station on the G.E.R. Post town, Beccles, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1723; population, 299. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £339 with residence. The church has a remarkable east front£ lattice work in stone£of 1617-37, and a round west tower, and contains an octagonal Tudor font, a brass of 1380, and a moulded brick altar-tomb of 1599. Echard, the ecclesiastical historian and early gazetteer writer, who died in 1730, and Catherine, the mother of Lord Nelson, were natives.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
