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.