Village Signs is a series of caches based on the ornate signs that depict the heritage, history and culture of the villages that put them up.
Thornham Parva is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located to the north of sister village Thornham Magna and around five miles south of Diss, in 2005 its population was 50. By the time of the 2011 Census population's of less than 100 were not maintained separately and this village was included in the population of Thornham Magna.
The tiny thatched Saxon church of St Mary's has early 14th century wall paintings, on the south wall, the early years of Christ and on the north wall, the martyrdom of St Edmund. There is a circular Saxon window as well as the famous retable. Architect Basil Spence died in 1976 at his home at Yaxley, Suffolk and was buried at Thornham Parva.
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