File:The church of SS Peter and Paul in Brockdish - C19 memorial - geograph.org.uk - 1768060.jpg

English: The Church of SS Peter and Paul in Brockdish, Norfolk, mural monument (see better image[1]) (directly to the right of the organ on the north wall of the nave) to Rev. Walter Worthe (1707-1755), Rector of Brockdish for only two years (1753-5) "unfortunately omitted from the list of rectors that hangs in the church" (Elaine Murphy, The Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, Brockdish. SOME LANDMARKS IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, 2016 [2]) and Rector of Thorpe Abbotts. He married Susanna Aldous (1698-1762), the daughter of John Aldous, Gentleman, of Syleham. Arms (see better image[3]): Argent, an eagle with two heads displayed sable beaked and legged gules (Worthe of Worth in the parish of Washfield, near Tiverton, Devon & of Calstock, Cornwall (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 509, but beaked and legged or; These arms are visible (beaked and legged or) on several escutcheons in Washfield Church. The arms are blazoned as beaked and legged gules in Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 805, pedigree of Worth) impaling: Argent, a chevron between three falcons rising gules on a chief sable three mullets of the field (Aldous) (not listed in Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884)

General notes

The church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul > 1768049 - situated on an elevation above the Waveney Valley - was built on a much older site of worship with the main structure of the building as we see it today dating from the 14th century. Francis Blomefield, author of 'History of Norfolk', was rector here between 1739 and 1742. The church was extensively restored in Victorian times and furnishings and stained glass date from this time. The reredos made was made by Gearge France of Merton tiles > 1768057 and the modern baptismal font > 1768053 has a carved oak cover of Swiss design. The rood screen panels > 1768055 are original but were restored, repainted in the original colours and gilded in 1864.