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TILNEY
ALL SAINTS LOCAL HISTORY GROUP
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WINDOWS
Almost all the ancient glass has been lost (it is described in Blomefield's History of Norfolk). The east window contained the arms of the Earl of Pembroke - a connection which still exists,as Pembroke College, Cambridge is the church's patron and Lay Rector. In the south aisle is found a window in memory of Gerald Watson Failes, Captain in the Norfolk Regiment, who was killed in 1918 aged 24. An angel is flanked on the left by St George, patron Saint of England, and on the right by St Martin, Patron of English armourists.Two windows over the north door depict, on the left, Our Lord as the Good Shepherd, and on the right, our Lord telling St Peter, 'Feed my sheep'. BELLS All Saints has a very fine set of six bells, which are now in use following recent restoration work on the bellframe. Treble, Two and Four were cast by Thomas Gardiner who had a foundry at Sudbury in Suffolk from 1709 -45 and at Becondale, Norwich from 1745 -53. Three was cast by Thomas Newman in 1820, and Five was cast by another Thomas Newman (an itinerant founder who worked from Norwich and Haddenham, Cambridgeshire) in 1731. The tenor bears the inscription, 'Thomas Norris made mee 1661'. The Tenor and Five were recast by Mears and Stainbank, Whitechapel, in 1950. CLOCK The clock, which has chimes, was erected in 1891 as a memorial to Samuel James Phillips,vicar 1877-91. The face has recently been restored and regilded. CHURCHYARD The churchyard contains a number of fine 17th and 18th century headstones, and the remains of an ancient preaching cross. It is also said to contain the remains of HICKATHRIFT - a local 'giant' around whom many stories have grown. The memorial for John Eaton (1718) in the churchyard reads: The
worlds
a city, full of crooked streets:
Death
is the Market Place, where all men meet.
If
Life were merchandise, that men could buy,
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