
CROWFIELD (Suffolk). All Saints is unique: a gem in wood and flint. Alongside it stood the broad-moated Crowfield Hall, seat of a cadet branch the 1560s to the 1660s of the Letheringham Wingfields: the Wingfields of Crowfield & of Jamaica, and then of the Middletons. All Saints has a 14th century doorway and nave (restored 1862) and a 15th century chancel. There is a 17th century floor memorial slab (under the carpet) to Sir Harbottle Wingfield I (d.1645, brother of Mary Dade and father-in-law of Francis Dade of Virginia, and grandfather of the Harbottle Wingfield, who emigrated in the 1670s to Port Royal & a 1,000-acre plantation near today’s Orange in Jamaica). Sir Harbottle’s arms are cut in marble impaled with Scrivener. His wife was Elizabeth Scrivener of Ipswich, sister of Matthew Scrivener, who was in 1608 in Jamestown, Virginia, “a particular friend of Captain Edward-Maria Wingfield” (the first President there). There is another monument to Dorothy Wingfield, Harbottle & Elizabeth’s daughter.