Village sign, Mill Road, Mendlesham
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Village sign, Mill Road, Mendlesham by Adrian S Pye as part of the Geograph project.
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Village sign, Mill Road, Mendlesham
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 23 Feb 2009
At the top of the sign is a wheatsheaf and scythe representing the agricultural heritage of the parish. Below that is the great parish church of St Mary, and immediately below that is an example of a Mendlesham chair. Similar to a Windsor chair but unique to its maker by being made from fruit-wood and elm for the seat with a double stretcher in the back. In the side panel on the left is a copy of the memorial brass of John Knyvet and in the right panel a memorial to Adam Foster, who became a Marian martyr, after he refused to attend a Roman Catholic mass. He was condemned to be burnt at the stake by John Hopton, the degenerate Bishop of Norwich. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4463410
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Image Location
Latitude
52.250132
Longitude
1.080865