Stained Glass Windows, St Nicholas - Little Saxham, Suffolk
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Stained glass windows in St Nicholas church, Little Saxham
Waymark Code: WMMP2C
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/17/2014
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"Ernest R Suffling of Maida Vale made the east window (1899), the adjoining south window and the two south windows in the nave. The one nearest the door is signed and dated 1900. The memorial window to Lt.Col. Crofts of 1910 was made by the celebrated firm of Heaton, Butler and Bayne, and is also signed, towards the bottom of the middle light.
Before the installation of these windows there was much armorial glass in the church; perhaps some of it had come from Little Saxham Hall after its demolition in 1773. One remaining shield in the south window by the altar is of particular interest. The arms represent Drury quartering Hervey impaling Poley of Badley, and as the dexter side has been inserted in reverse, the shield is probably not in its original form.
Thomas (d.1477), son of John Hervey of Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, married Jane, daughter and heiress of Henry Drury of Ickworth and it was by this marriage that Ickworth came to the Hervey family. Their daughter Elizabeth married John Crofts of West Stow and the son of this marriage, Sir John Crofts, bought Little Saxham Hall soon after 1531. Sir John did not live at Saxham, preferring his newer house at West Stow. His grandson, Thomas, was the first of the Crofts family to live permanently here. He married Susan, daughter of John Poley of Badley, with whom he had twelve children."
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