Tivetshall St Margaret is a village and former
civil parish
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, now in the parish of
Tivetshall, in the
South Norfolk
South Norfolk is a local government district in Norfolk, England. Its council is based in Long Stratton. The population of the Local Authority District was 124,012 as taken at the 2011 Census.
History
The district was formed on 1 April 197 ...
district, in the county of
Norfolk
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, England. It covered an area of and had a population of 266 in 104 households at the
2001 census, increasing to 295 at the 2011 Census. On the 1st of April 2019 the parish was merged with
Tivetshall St Mary to form Tivetshall.
The villages name means 'Nook of land'. It has been suggested that the first element may be related to a late northern
English
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dialectical, 'tewhit' meaning '
lapwing
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'. 'St. Margaret' from the church dedication.
[http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Tivetshall%20St.%20Margaret]
The church
The church of St. Margaret has a
tympanum painted with the
Royal Arms
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of
Elizabeth I
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El ...
, some of the earliest in England, dating from 1587.
The huge arms, which stretch across the church, from wall to wall and from the top of the
roodscreen
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to the roof, are flanked by the
lion
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and the
dragon
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. Beneath is painted "God Save Our Quene Elizabeth". The design includes the symbols of the other four
Tudor monarchs, as well as the badge of
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn (; 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and of her execution by beheading for treason and other charges made her a key ...
, Elizabeth's own mother.
Beneath the arms, which have been recently restored, are
Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (Biblical Hebrew עשרת הדברים \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים, ''aséret ha-dvarím'', lit. The Decalogue, The Ten Words, cf. Mishnaic Hebrew עשרת הדיברות \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְ ...
.
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See also
* Tivetshall railway station
Tivetshall was a railway station on the Great Eastern Main Line located in Tivetshall, Norfolk. It was also the western terminus of the Waveney Valley Line from Beccles. It served six small parishes in an agricultural area.
History Design a ...
Notes
External links
Tivetshall St. Margaret at genuki.org
Villages in Norfolk
Former civil parishes in Norfolk
South Norfolk
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