Brome, Suffolk Explained

Country:England
Official Name:Brome
Static Image Name:Brome-g2.jpg
Static Image Alt:The church of St Mary at Brome
Static Image Caption:The church of St Mary at Brome
Map Alt:The location of Brome within Suffolk
Coordinates:52.345°N 1.133°W
Region:East of England
Post Town:EYE
Postcode District:IP23
Postcode Area:IP
Dial Code:01379
Os Grid Reference:TM135764
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Brome is a village and former civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district, in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It lies on the A140 Norwich to Ipswich road around 1miles northwest of Eye and 2miles southeast of Diss near the border with Norfolk. In 1961 the parish had a population of 230.[1] The village is now in the parish of Brome and Oakley and has been combined with the village of Oakley for centuries[2] but the civil parish was only combined on 1 April 1982.[3]

The village church, dedicated to St Mary, is one of 38 existing round-tower churches in Suffolk.[4] It is a Grade II* listed building with a medieval core dating from the 12th century.[5] A moated site near the church is a scheduled monument dating from the same period.

Notable residents

The Catholic priest and martyr Henry Morse was born in the village in 1595. Morse was venerated and beatified in December 1929 and in 1970 was made one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.[6] [7] John Wilbye (1574-1638), the famous English madrigalist, was born in Brome. Amongst his works is the much performed madrigal: "Adew Sweet Amaryllis".[8] [9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Population Statistics Brome CP/AP through time. A Vision of Britain. 30 January 2020.
  2. http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/oakley.html St Nicholas, Oakley
  3. Web site: The Mid Suffolk (Parishes) Order 1981. Local Government Boundary Commission for England. 30 January 2020. 23 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220223061607/https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/12377/mid-suffolk-parishes-order-1981.pdf. dead.
  4. http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/brome.html St Mary, Brome
  5. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-280958-church-of-st-mary-brome-and-oakley-suffo Church of St Mary, Brome and Oakley
  6. Holmes P, ‘Morse, Henry (1595–1645)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, September 2012 accessed 2014-03-15.
  7. Pullan M (2008) The Lives and Times of Forty Martyrs of England and Wales 1535 - 1680, Athena Press, pp. xvii–xxii. .
  8. [John Wilbye]
  9. Web site: John Wilbye - English composer.