Trunch

Trunch is a village and parish in Norfolk, England^[1], situated three miles north of North Walsham and two miles from the coast at Mundesley. At the Census 2001 the village had a population of 805,^[2] and 388 households. The parish covers an area of 5.5 square kilometres (2.1 sq mi).

Saint Botolph's Parish Church

Trunch Parish Church is the Grade I listed [1] 14th-century church of St Botolph. The church is famous for its carved and painted wood font canopy featuring lower panels with paintings of the twelve Apostles, a cornice including a Latin inscription, and above six arches filled with tracery.^[3] Only four such canopies still exist in England. St Botolph's also features a hammerbeam roof with carved angels, as well as medieval misericords under the seats in the chancel. Anther medieval survival is the rood screen depicting 11 disciples and St Paul (their faces were scratched out during the Reformation). Lord Nelson's daughter is said to have been married in the church.

In 1589 Robert Thexton became the rector of Trunch. While at Cambridge university Thexton had been the room-mate of Christopher Marlowe the famous, and infamous, Elizabethan playwright.^[4]

Sid Kipper

The fictional village of St. Just-near-Trunch is known in English folk music as the home of the satirical band The Kipper Family.

Other links

Trunch Farmworkers Strike - Account of 1906 agricultural dispute in the village, from EASF.

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