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English: The church of SS Gervase and Protase, Little Plumstead, Norfolk, mural monument (see better image[1]) to Rev. Paul Colombine (1730-1821), Rector Little Plumstead, who died aged 91. By the London sculptor Bacon. Rev. Paul Colombine was a son of Peter/Pierre Columbine, Mayor of Norwich in 1755, and was a brother of Francis Columbine (c.1725-1808) Mayor of Norwich in 1776, a merchant and grocer, who resigned as an alderman for the Great Northern Ward, Norwich, in 1802, a supporter of the politician Windham, (Source: https://nrocatalogue.norfolk.gov.uk/index.php/actor/browse?page=6&sf_culture=en&occupation=214917&types=&sort=alphabetic) and of David Colombine, Sheriff of Norfolk in 1772. Rev. Paul Colombine's grandfather was Francois Colombine/Le Columbine (d.1699) a physician and Huguenot refugee from Clelles, Dauphiné, France, who settled in Norwich in about 1685 and became Pastor of the French Church (St Mary the Less) in Norwich. Rev. Paul Colombine's daughter Elizabeth Colombine married William Mason of Necton, High Sheriff of Norfolk. Arms: A chevron between three mullets (Colombine) impaling: An estoile of six points (Skottoe/Scotto, as seen here) (Per fess or and azure, a mullet of eight points counter-changed (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.907 "Scotto/Scotton of Norwich")) (for his wife Katherine Skottowe (1734-1818), from Charleville, County Cork, Ireland. (Source: Huguenot Pedigrees, Volume 1

By Charles Edmund Lart, pp.26-7[2]). Crest: A dove (French: colombe) holding in its beak an olive branch (Colombine)

General notes

The church in Little Plumstead is the only church in England dedicated to SS Gervasius and Protasius - it is presumed that the day of laying out the church plan, or the day of its consecration fell on the saints' feast day. The round-towered church > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911532 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911547 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911582 - adjoining the former Hall > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/685950 which in 1929 was converted into a hospital and is presently awaiting demolition - dates from the 12th century (the core of its walls is Norman) and was extensively restored in the 19th century; furnishings, window glass and font date from this time. The old 17th century font > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911543 which was replaced by a 19th century font > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911587 now stands beside the south porch and serves as a bird bath. The east window (dated to c 1850) is a memorial to Admiral Stephens, who served in the Navy during the Napoleonic wars and became Admiral in 1837. The east window > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911550 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911553 displaced glass panels which had been inserted by the Revd Charles Penrice. They can now be seen in the south chancel window > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911557. Some of these panels are by Robert Allen (1834) of Lowestoft, who worked at the Lowestoft porcelain factory and made glass painting his hobby > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911560 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911562. The small roundels > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911565 and the square panels depicting arms are believed to have been made by Samuel Yarrington of Norwich, who created enamelled glass (not true stained glass). There are several 18th and 19th century memorial tablets > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911569. A large monument to the Yarmouth apothecary and art collector Thomas Penrice and his wife Hannah and their family, who lived in the neighbouring Hall, is located on the north wall > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/911574. (This information was taken from "A History of SS Gervase and Protase - Little Plumstead", compiled by Richard L Hale and published by the Church in the Plumsteads.) The church is kept locked. See also: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littleplumstead/index.html