- St Mary and St Martin’s Church, Church Lane, Kirton, Ipswich, IP10 0PT
The parishes are in the deanery of Colneis in the diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich.
Nothing now survives of the Saxon or Norman church which the Domesday Book tells us was standing in Kirton, then Kirketuna, in 1086. Successive rebuildings have obliterated or obscured almost all evidence of earlier buildings leaving only the font (partly 13th C), the south doorway, a piscina and two image niches to show that a church existed here before the 16th century.
In recent years replacement of the Victorian obscured glass in the east window with modern clear glass and major re-ordering with the addition of a new porch, has produced a church building with a delightful air of lightness and dignity. There is also a church hall available for hire.
Based on the church guide written by Peter Northeast.
The organisation Friends of Kirton Church exists to support the maintenance and repair of the church building.
Incumbents
1086 Godric mentioned in Domesday Book 1294 Thomas de Kancia
1306 January 31 William de Knotingle
1314 April 15 Galfr de Clare
1318 April 2 Richard de Brampton
1321 March 12 John le Noble de Dulyngham Rector of Hemley 1326–40
1326 January 4 Robert de Aylsham Rector of Hemley 1314–26 & Rector of Newbourn 1340–49
1331 May 4 John Wesenham
1389 August 28 John Tring
1391 August 2 Hugo fil John de Coulsthorp
1391 December 8 Hugo Wickingham
1403 July 19 Jacob Cokesford
1421 July 18 John Newman Vicar of Falkenham 14 March 1425 – 13 March 1426
1426 March 4 John Grene de Ocolt Vicar of Falkenham 6 February 1422 – 14 March 1425
1428 September 22 William Boteler
1430 August 17 Joannes Fokys
1431 July 8 Robert Fleckever
1434 July 20 Father William Debenham Vicar of Falkenham 31 May 1429 until institution as Rector of Kirton
1469 June 20 John Sharowe
1497 July 20 Christopher Crosby
Henry Clerk
1498 November 7 John Bolton
1512 June 10 Thomas Clark
1529 March 29 Richard Sunningburghe
1529 October 12 Heliseus ap Rice
1554 November 15 Robert Walton Instituted Rector of Wolverstone in 1538
1561 January 9 Richard Rice
Thomas Christmas
1574 May 21 Leon Wright
1601 January 28 John Pletcher
1624 February 12 Peter Walwyn
1625 December 9 Edward Jaques
1669 July 1 John Bolton also Rector of Bucklesham from 1631
1674 September 19 Robert Rednall Vicar of Falkenham 1662–87
1687 June 23 John Jeffreys also Vicar of Falkenham
1730 November 25 William Reeve
1768 June 15 Robert Malyn also Rector of Braiseworth until 8 July 1812
1820 August 1 John Robert Matthew Edgar also Vicar of Falkenham 28 September 1796 – 1842
1844 December 23 Erskine Neale
1854 December 5 Percy James Croft
1861 October 30 Philip George Bartlett
1876 May 20 Walter Parry Davies
1917 March 1 William Robinson
1927 November 23 William John Stuart Weir also Vicar of Falkenham
1966 December 1 Peter Rapkin Westall also Vicar of Falkenham
1970 August 18 Brian Theodore Thompson also Vicar of Falkenham
1983 June 22 John George Frostick also Vicar of Falkenham
1990 November 27 John Edgar Swain Priest-in-Charge, Benefice of Kirton & Falkenham
1996 May 30 Geoffrey Leslie Grant Priest-in-Charge, Benefice of Kirton & Falkenham
2017 July 21? The Revd Canon Ian Andrew WILSON, Priest-in-Charge, Nacton and Levington with Bucklesham and Foxhall with Kirton and Falkenham
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