Redgrave village sign (east face)

Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 5 Mar 2021

If you wonder why the sign is surmounted by a boar, it refers to the Bacon family.  The first Sir Nicholas Bacon bought the Manor of Redgrave after the reformation and started to build Redgrave Hall in 1545.  He was Queen Elizabeth’s Lord Keeper and was knighted by her.  He died in 1579 and was buried in the old St Pauls, and was succeeded by his son, another Nicholas. The second Sir Nicholas Bacon, was the first man to be created a baronet in 1611. He would serve on many commissions in his lifetime, and so began a dynasty. He and his wife, Anne are buried in Redgrave church which is depicted immediately below. The sign is double sided. The windmill which stood northwest of the village centre, no longer exists, it was destroyed by fire in 1924. A building with a barn door was a thatched barn in the middle of The Street, which has been converted into three houses. The single church bell is a homage to bell founder John Goldsmith who lived in the village. The organ, being played on the right, recalls Redgrave’s organ builder, Joseph Hart, who had a workshop in his garden. On the spandrels are heraldic crests of the Holt and Wilson families. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6774553

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