HORNINGSHEATH, a parish comprising the consolidated
parishes of Great and Little Horningsheath,
in the hundred of THINGOE, county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles
(S. W. by W.) from Bury-St. Edmund's, and containing
539 .inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated jointly
in the king's books at £ 13. 13. 9., and in the patronage
of the Marquis of Bristol. The church is dedicated to
Sti Leonard, and although much modernised, retains
portions in the decorated and later styles of English
architecture; that of Little Horningsheath has gone to
ruins. Fifty children are educated in an endowed school,
which is supported chiefly by a rent-charge on lands in
Denston; the school-house was built by the Marquis of
Bristol.