Ashwell Thorpe village sign

Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 22 Nov 2020

A rather unusual type of sign, different from the ordinary. Four sided and each side has a varying number panels each featuring something different. The Oak Legend, Modern agricultural practice, ears of different grain, another says the sign was restored for the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth, and theatrical comedy and tragedy masks. A second face shows the emblem of the Queen’s silver jubilee, the effigies of Sir Edmund and Lady de Thorpe whose tomb is in the church are represented, as well as the church porch and parvise. Ashwell Thorpe Hall, an old plough, the handle on the church door, The Knyvett letters 1620-44, sport is represented by balls and cricket stumps and music by stringed and keyed instruments. The only named business in that of Huggin, the local clockmaker. Nature is represented by woodland with a squirrel and another illustrates a dandelion. Around the lower part are family crests, some of which I can guess but without colour I cannot be certain. Since Fundenhall was incorporated with Ashwell Thorpe the parish name was reconfigured to become Ashwellthorpe. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6685130 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6685131 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6685132 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6697917

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