234 Costessey. • the south by the road from Norwich to East Der!:Jham. The park contains some of the finest forest trees in the county, and the neighbourhood is much celebrated for its diversified features of hill and vale. The old hall is an extensive pile of brick in the plain Tudor style, with battlements and square windows. It forms three sides of a quadrangle, and the projecting wings are terminated by corbie-stepped gables crowned by square pinnacles. This house was erected by Sir Henry J erningham, Knight, in the reign of Elizabeth, and was not pulled down when the new and splendid mansion which is now attached to it was completed. The new building is also of brick, and is a fine specimen of Tudor architecture. It contains many fine paintings, one of which is a portrait of Queen 1\-fary by Holbein; another represents Thomas of Arundel and his Countess Alethea, seated under a canopy, with all their children around them, designed by Vandyck, but finished by Philip Frutiers, of Antwerp, in 1640; and a ihird contains portraits of J ames II. and his family. Attached to the hall is the family Roman Catholic Chapel, a handsome edifice in the Perpendicular style, erected from a design by Edward Jerningham, Esq., and measuring 90 feet long, 25 wide, and 20 high. It is chiefly copied from the chapel of King's College, Cambridge, and has 20 noble windows filled with exquisite stamed glass of inestimable value, collected from various monasteries on the Continent. The manor was given by the Norman conqueror to Alan, Earl of Richmond. After passing through various families it was granted by Queen Mary to her vice-chamberlain, Sir Henry Jernegan, or Jerningham, who built the hall, which has ever since been the se&t of his family. This family was distinguished even before the Norman Conquest, one of its members having obtained several manors in Norfolk from Knut as a reward for the services he had rendered to Swegn when he invaded England. Henry Jerningham, Esq., was created a baronet in 1621. His descendant, the late Sir George J emingham, was heir-general of the bodies of Sir William Howard and Mary his wife, and Baroness Stafford. Sir William Howard was created Baron Stafford, after espousing the heiress of the Stafford family, in 1640; but being attainted as a conspirator in the Popish plot, be was beheaded in 1678, and all his honours forfeited. By the reversal of this attainder in 1825, Sir George J erningham succeeded to the title of Baron Stafford, and assumed the name of Stafford by sign-manual in 1826. On his death in l8l51 he was succeedetl by his son, Henry V alentinc Stafford J erningham, the late Baron Stafford, who died in 1884, and was succeeded by Augustus Frederick Fitzherbert Stafford-Jerningham, the present Lord Stafford, who has large estates in Shropshire and Staftordshire, includin&" a handsome seat called Shiffnall Manor and a baronial castle at Stafford, the latter of which was partly rebuilt in the five years succeeding 1809. His brother, Fitzosbert Stafford-Jerningham, is the heir-presumptive. The PARISH CHURCH (StEdmund)is a large structure, comprising nave, chancel, and a tower containing five bells and surmounted by a wooden spire. The building was origmally in the Decorated style, but the heads of the windows of the nave have been bricked up. The chancel has a pretty east window, and contains several tablets of the Jerningham and the Waldegrave families, and one in memory of Captain Sir William Bolton, R.N. There is a handsomely-carved screen, and here were formerly three guilds. The rectorial tithes, &c., belong to the Great Hospital in Norwich, together with the patronage of the vicarage, which is certified at £40,.and now worth £175 per annum. The Rev. James Williams Evans, M.A., is the present incumbent. The llAPTIST CHAPEL has 130 'sittings, and is a plain brick building, erected in 1822. ThB RoM.AN CATHOLIC CHAPEL, dedicated to St. \Valstan, was built in 1841, and is of brick, in the Early English style, having narrow lancet windows, some of which are filled with stained glass, the work of a native artist. Attached to jt is a large burial-ground. The Roman Catholic School is the only public elementary • school here. It was built in 1820 by Lord Stafford, and has been enlarged and is mainly supported by the present Lord Stafford. The Sisters of Charity of St. Paul have charge, With a certified mistress as assistant. The attendance is about 170 children. The poor parishioners have £2 28. a year from la. lr. of land, given by an unknown donor, and a yearly rent-charge of 30s., left by John Hyrne. Lord Stafford, though a Roman Catholic, is extremely benevolent to the poor of all denominations, and allows them to gather fuel in his extensive plantations on certain days in the year. There is a lodge of Oddfellows at the Swan Inn, and three benefit societies at the White Hart. The corn mill on the River Wensum is a fine building of white brick, erected in 1858 on the site of an old mill. It is now occupied by the executors of l\ir. Henry Utting Culley. PosT; MoNEY ORDER OFFICE, and SAVINGS BANK at Mr. Caius Spaul's. Letters arrive at 4.45 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. ; despatched at 11 a.m. and at 5.45 p.m., via Norwich. The nearest Telegra;ph Office is at Drayton Railway Station. 1'

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