Kedington

Kedington
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Kedington
Kedington Location within Suffolk
Population	1,849 (2011)
Shire county	Suffolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Haverhill
Postcode district	CB9
Dialling code	01440

Kedington is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England, located between the towns of Clare and Haverhill in the south-west of Suffolk.

Known as Doomtown in the Domesday Book (1086), there were 280 people living there at that time. Part of it was formerly in Essex.

Kedington's church, St Peter and St Paul, is one of the historical treasures of East Anglia, dating from the late 13th century. However, the church is built on top of a Roman villa, the remains of which can be viewed under small trap doors located in the pews towards the back of the nave. There is an Anglo-Saxon stone cross located above the altar on the east wall of the church. This was found near to the church and is believed to be from a church dating from Saxon times. Kedington comes in the top rank of small English churches and is renowned for its unmodernised interior and Barnardiston tombs. John Betjeman understandably christened Kedington ' a village Westminster Abbey'. The 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury John Tillotson was rector of Kedington prior to his elevation.

References

• Niklaus Mikaelson, Suffolk, in The Buildings of England series

External links

Media related to Kedington at Wikimedia Commons

• Photos of the church