Sustead is a small village and parish in the county of

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the Nort ...

, England, about four miles south-west of

Cromer Cromer ( ) is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. It is north of Norwich, north-northeast of London and east of Sheringham on the North Sea coastline. The local government authorities are N ...

. The parish also includes the villages of Bessingham and Metton. The parish is bounded by Aldborough and

Hanworth Hanworth is a district of West London, England. Historically in Middlesex, it has been part of the London Borough of Hounslow since 1965. Hanworth adjoins Feltham to the northwest, Twickenham to the northeast and Hampton to the southeast, w ...

to the south, Roughton to the east,

Felbrigg Felbrigg is a small village just south of Cromer in Norfolk, England.''OS Explorer Map 24'' (Edition A 1997) – ''Norfolk Coast Central''. . The Danish name means a 'plank bridge'. Historians believe that the original village was clustered a ...

and Aylmerton to the north and Gresham to the west.

History

The villages name means 'South place'. Sustead has an entry in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

of 1086. Sustead is recorded by the names Surstede and Sutstede. The main land holder was William de Warren and the main tenant was Roger Bigot. The survey also states there were 1½ mills.

The parish church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul

The earliest parts of this church are

Saxon The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic * * * * peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country ( Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the No ...

but over the years it has been added to and altered by the

Normans The Normans ( Norman: ''Normaunds''; french: Normands; la, Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and indigenous West Franks and Gallo-Romans. T ...

Tudors The House of Tudor was a royal house of largely Welsh and English origin that held the English throne from 1485 to 1603. They descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd and Catherine of France. Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England and it ...

and

Victorians In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edwardian ...

. The

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-typ ...

reflects all these periods in its decoration. The north and south doorways date from the 14th century whilst the square headed windows date from the 15th century. There are fragments of mediaeval stained glass in the south window. Behind the pulpit there are the signs of a blocked off, long demolished north

transept A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In cruciform churches, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform ("cross-shaped") building with ...

. There is an octagonal font which dates from the 15th century. The pulpit is from the 17th century and is decorated with heads of angels. The pulpit was originally from the church at

North Barningham North Barningham is a hamlet within the civil parish of Gresham in the English county of Norfolk. The hamlet is south-west of Cromer, north-northwest of Norwich and north-northeast of London. The hamlet lies south of the town of Sheri ...

. The screen dates from the 14th century. The church has a round tower which is 48 feet (15 metres) tall and has a diameter of 7 feet (2 metres). The walls are 3 ft 4ins (1 metre) thick. The lower part of this round tower is from the Saxon period. The higher reaches were built in the 14th and 15th century. The tower has a single bell which was cast between 1400 and 1425. The south porch of the church is late 14th century but underwent restoration work in 1896.From a pamphlet purchased inside the church, Dated 8 December 1997

Church gallery

Image:Sustead Church 31st August 2008.JPG, The round tower Image:Sustead parish Church, Sunday 31st August 2008.JPG, The chancel and screen Image:Sustead parish Church, Sunday 31st August 2008 (2).JPG, The font

Notable people

Humphry Repton Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of ...

, landscape designer, lived in Sustead.

Village gallery

Image:Sustead Village sign 10 Nov 2007.JPG, The

Village sign In many parts of England, an ornamental village sign is erected to announce the village name to those entering the village. They are typically placed on the principal road entrance or in a prominent location such as a village green. The design ...

References

http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Sustead

External links

St Peter and St Paul on the European Round Tower Churches website
{{authority control Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk North Norfolk