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Chedgrave

Norfolk

C12, tower base possibly earlier, much restored in early C19.

Architectural Features

East window C15, three lights with Perpendicular tracery.

C12 north and south doorways in nave, the north door with one order of shafts on cushion capitals, plain-chamfered inner arch and zigzag moulded hood.

Burke's General Armory has a blazon of "Argent on a chevron azure between three caltraps sable as many annulets or" for Webster (London).   A caltrap (or caltrop), a 'spike device' to disable horses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop ), is an unusual charge.   The impaled arms (presumably Webster's wife) are as yet unidentified: I will update the caption if more information becomes available.

South-east corner of chancel has cusped piscina with petalled bowl and pedimented wall monument to Henry Webster In the northeast corner of chancel an oval tablet to Thomas Webster and his wife Mary Semicircular arched opening to tower in north chancel wall.

Burke's General Armory has a blazon of "Argent on a chevron azure between three caltraps sable as many annulets or" for Webster (London). A caltrap (or caltrop), a 'spike device' to disable horses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop ), is an unusual charge. The impaled arms (presumably Webster's wife) are as yet unidentified: I will update the caption if more information becomes available.

© Bill Harrison

Some good memorial slabs in nave floor, notably that to Robert Gilbert Font, C15, octagonal with stem of cusped arcading and bowl with winged angels bearing shields.

East window contains C16 and foreign glass, said to have been brought from Rouen by Lady Beauchamp Proctor c.1797.