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Description Hatchment, Church of St Peter & St Paul, Heydon, Norfolk, for John Davy (1647-1710) of Heigham. Arms: Sable, a chevron engrailed ermine between three annulets argent (Davy), impaling: Chequy or and azure, a fess ermine (Calthorpe). These Davy arms granted in 1596 by Sir w:William Dethick (c. 1542–1612), Garter Principal King of Arms, to the Davy family of Calton, Norfolk; also the arms of Davy of Ingoldsthorpe and Kilverstone Hall, Norfolk. (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.268). Crest: Out of a ducal coronet or an elephant's head sable, armed argent, in the front of the coronet a ring, thereto a line turned over the trunk, both or (Davy of Ingoldsthorpe and Kilverstone Hall, Norfolk). Wording on a ledger stone in the same church[1]: "Sacred to ye memory of ye Rev. John Davy, Clerk, of this parish, who departed this life in ye 39th year of his age. Anno Dom. 1647 ; for his son John Davy of Heigham, who dyed 30th of January, 1710, aged 63 ; also for Judith (Calthorpe), relict of the above John Davy, Gent., who departed this life ye 11th day of September, 1724, in ye 80th year of her age." (Source: Farrer, Edmund, The church heraldry of Norfolk: a description of all coats of arms on brasses, monuments, slabs, hatchments, &c., now to be found in the county. llustrated. With references to Blomefield's History of Norfolk and Burke's Armory. Together with notes from the inscriptions attached, Norwich, Vol II, Norwich, 1889, p.36[2]) Heihham, or Higham, was a parish in Norwich district, Norfolk, on the west side ofthe City of Norwich, just outside the city walls of Norwich. Its churches included: Heigham St Bartholomew; Heigham St Philip; Heigham Most Holy Trinity; Heigham St Barnabas. The manor house, "Heigham" House, appears to be today's Dolphin Inn situated at 252 Heigham Street, Norwich, a grade II* listed building, built c1587 and became the summer palace of Bishop Hall, from which he was ejected in 1647 during the civil war. The building was first recorded as an inn in 1715. It suffered considerable damage from an incendiary bomb in 1942 during World War II and was subsequently restored. In July 1999 it was closed and boarded up and damaged by fire two years later. It is now being used as a chiropractic centre.
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