Description

Bricett, Great, a parish in Suffolk, 2 3/4 miles E by N of Bildeston, and 4 1/2 SW of Needham Market station on the G.E.R. Post town, Bildeston (S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 926; population, 245. An Augustinian Priory was founded here in 1110 by Ralph Fitz-Brian, annexed to the monastery of Nobiliac in France, and conveyed in the time of Henry VI. to King's College, Cambridge. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Norwich ; net yearly value, £145 with residence. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church is a plain building of flint in the Perpendicular style.