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St Peter's > Link is an estate church and was extensively restored by the Wodehouses who lived in Kimberley Hall nearby. Its most noteworthy features are the stained glass windows, memorials to the Wodehouses, with one of the south windows and the east window containing panels of continental and also some rare 14th century Norfolk glass. The vast majority of foreign medieval glass in Norfolk was imported by John Christopher Hampp. The bottom row is made up of 16th century heraldic shields of the Wodehouse family.

Starting at the top, the tracery lights include the head of Christ, Christ on the crucifix and several small roundels, some depicting the moon in various phases, with faces.

Row 1 contains mainly 14th and 15th century English glass depicting saints, apostles and angels and also a figure of John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God. The glass is unfortunately quite deteriorated.

Row 2 contains a similar selection and many of the images are discoloured and deteriorated. The first figure can however be identified as that of St Catherine holding her emblematic wheel.

Row 1 - the two panels depicting angels are believed to have originally been made for Cologne Cathedral, once the tallest building in the world the construction of which had begun in 1248 and took, with interruptions, more than 600 years to complete. The first and fourth panels would appear to have been spares from the glass given to St Andrew's church in Hingham. A third figure in similar colours and design depicts a weeping woman and also came from Germany (third panel). The most noteworthy panel, the second from left, was made in England in about 1375 and depicts St Margaret of Antioch slaying a dragon.

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