English: St Peter's Church, Kimberley, Norfolk - east window detail. Shields left to right: (Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 1 (1885), p.282-3[1])

• 1: Wodehouse impaling Lynn
• 2: Wodehouse impaling Ermine, three chevrons sable (Reppes);
• 3: Wodehouse impaling Townsend quartering Gules, a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis or (Hauvile/de Hautville/de Havile/de Haville of Raynham, Norfolk) (Pedigree of Townshend, in Dashwood, G. H., ed. (1878). The Visitation of Norfolk in the year 1563, taken by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms: Volume 1. Norwich , p.306[2]). Text from Duchess of Cleveland, Battle Abbey Roll [3]: "Raynham continued in the possession of the de Havile family until 1345, when James de Havile, the husband of Anne Wace, was living there. "Soon after, this lordship of Raynham-Havile's came to the Townshends, by the marriage of Elizabeth de Havile, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas de Havile with Lewis de Townshend, as Collins, in his Peerage, observes".
• 4: Wodehouse impaling Tirrell

Farrer's text: "In the East Window.

VIII. Wodehouse, with a crescent for difference ; impaling, Quarterly : — 1 and 4, Gules, a demi-lion rampant or within a bordure sable ; 2 and 3, Gules, a demi-lion rampant or within a bordure sable bezantee (Lynn of Bassingborne, co. Cambridge.)

IX. Wodehouse, impaling, Quarterly : — 1 and 4, Ermine, three chevrons sable, Reppes ; 2 and 3, Or, a bend between three trefoils slipped azure {Smyth. — Bl. Norf. 23<J. It may be that the "trefoils" arc here intended to be "sable.") John Reppes of West Walton married Margaret, daughter and coheir of Henry Smyth of Walpole. See Carthews Launditch, iii. 320.

X. Wodchouse, with a crescent for difference ; impaling, Quarterly: — 1 and 4, Azure, a chevron ermine between three escallops argent, Townsend ; 2 and 3, Gules, a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis or, Havile.

XI. Wodehouse, with a crescent for difference ; impaling, Argent, two chevrons azure within a bordure gules {Tirrell. The bordure is usually "engrailed.") "

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The church was extensively restored in the 1870s > 773236; its perhaps most noteworthy features are the stained glass windows, memorials to the Wodehouses of Kimberley Hall. The east window contains fragments of English and continental glass dating from the 14th and 15th centuries - see > 773246 for full view. A 1950s window in the north nave wall depicts episodes from the life of St Francis > 773251. The church is kept locked; a key is available. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kimberley/kimberley.htm