Thornham Parva, Suffolk nr Eye - St Mary's Church retable - postcard c.1980s

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• Picture / Image:  Detail from the retable (c 1300) in the little thatched church of St Mary, Thornham Parva, near Eye, Suffolk - shows St Edmund, St Margaret of Antioch and St. Peter Martyr
• Publisher: the church?
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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St Mary's Church is a medieval church in Thornham Parva, Suffolk, England. Much of the fabric dates from the 12th century, and it is a Grade I listed building.[1] Originally the church served not only Thornham Parva but the neighbouring village of Thornham Magna, which is now a separate parish.

A church on the site was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and there are still traces of Anglo-Saxon stonework in the present building. The roof is thatched. Inside the building are early-14th-century wall paintings—on the south wall the early years of Christ and on the north wall the martyrdom of St Edmund.[2] The church also houses a famous altarpiece, the Thornham Parva Retable, which is thought to have been created in the 1330s for a Dominican priory,[3][4] probably Blackfriars, Thetford.

The architect Basil Spence died in 1976 at his home at Yaxley, Suffolk, and was buried at Thornham Parva.[5]The graves of Dame Anne Warburton, the first female British ambassador, and the violinist, Frederick Grinke, also lie within the churchyard.