RAVENINGHAM, a parish in the hundred of CLAVERING,
county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (N.N.W.) from
Beccleg, containing 261 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and
diocese of Norwich, endowed with £ 200 royal bounty
and' £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart. The church is dedicated
to St. Andrew. A college of eight Secular priests was
founded here, in 1343, by Sir John de Norwich, which
was afterwards removed to Norton-Subcourse, and, in
1393, to Castle-Mettingham in Suffolk.