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outer gateway are the battered remains of Henry the Eighth's arms, supporters,
crest, &c. on the sides of which are two shields with the Farmor arms. These
are again displayed, near the top of the building, and also with numerous quar-
terings on a large shield, over the arch within the gate. On each side of the
entrance arch are some fragments, in brick, of statues, which formerly stood on
brackets, beneath canopies, and were intended to represent porters, or guards.
In Blomefield's history, these are called " two wild men, or giants, as janitors,
armed with clubs." By the same work we are informed that the date of 1538
was to be seen on a pane of stained glass. " In a window in this house were
formerly the armorial pedigree and alliances of the family of Calthorpe, from the
Conquest to the middle of the last century, contained in between fifty and sixty
diamond-shaped panes of painted glass, neatly executed. They are now most of
them entire, and are placed in a bow window in the library of John Fenn, Esq.
of East-Dereham*."
Of this once splendid and much decorated mansion, the walls of the porter's-
lodge, and some of the apartments on the northern side of the court, only remain :
these are now appropriated to a farm-house. A large barn is constructed, with
squared stones ; nearly the whole of which are covered with various tracery, of
different patterns; but it is difficult to say whether these constituted part of the
house; or are fragments of the once magnificent and noted priory of Walsing-
ham, in the vicinity.
W&tst §s>toto £all,
SUFFOLK.
This spacious brick mansion formerly surrounded a quadrangular court;
was moated, and adapted, by interior arrangement, to baronial festivities and
customs. Its builder is not known; but by the armorial bearings on the porch,
it is presumed to have been erected towards the end of Henry the Seventh's,
or beginning of Henry the Eighth's reign. The arms are those of the Princess
* Gough's edition of Camden's Britannia, vol. ii. p. 112, edit. 1789-
ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
outer gateway are the battered remains of Henry the Eighth's arms, supporters,
crest, &c. on the sides of which are two shields with the Farmor arms. These
are again displayed, near the top of the building, and also with numerous quar-
terings on a large shield, over the arch within the gate. On each side of the
entrance arch are some fragments, in brick, of statues, which formerly stood on
brackets, beneath canopies, and were intended to represent porters, or guards.
In Blomefield's history, these are called " two wild men, or giants, as janitors,
armed with clubs." By the same work we are informed that the date of 1538
was to be seen on a pane of stained glass. " In a window in this house were
formerly the armorial pedigree and alliances of the family of Calthorpe, from the
Conquest to the middle of the last century, contained in between fifty and sixty
diamond-shaped panes of painted glass, neatly executed. They are now most of
them entire, and are placed in a bow window in the library of John Fenn, Esq.
of East-Dereham*."
Of this once splendid and much decorated mansion, the walls of the porter's-
lodge, and some of the apartments on the northern side of the court, only remain :
these are now appropriated to a farm-house. A large barn is constructed, with
squared stones ; nearly the whole of which are covered with various tracery, of
different patterns; but it is difficult to say whether these constituted part of the
house; or are fragments of the once magnificent and noted priory of Walsing-
ham, in the vicinity.
W&tst §s>toto £all,
SUFFOLK.
This spacious brick mansion formerly surrounded a quadrangular court;
was moated, and adapted, by interior arrangement, to baronial festivities and
customs. Its builder is not known; but by the armorial bearings on the porch,
it is presumed to have been erected towards the end of Henry the Seventh's,
or beginning of Henry the Eighth's reign. The arms are those of the Princess
* Gough's edition of Camden's Britannia, vol. ii. p. 112, edit. 1789-