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English: All Saints Church, Dickleburgh, Norfolk - mural monument to Dame Frances Playters (d.1659), wife of w:Sir William Playters, 2nd Baronet (1590–1668) of Sotterley in Suffolk and daughter and heiress of Charles Le Grys of Billingford in Norfolk. She predeceased her husband. Their only son Sir Thomas Playters (1616-1651) predeceased both his parents, and died of fever at Palermo in Sicily, aged 35. Transcript of inscription per Francis Blomefield, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, Vol.I, London, 1805, pp198-200 [1]; also transcribed in Alfred Suckling, 'Sotterley', in The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: Volume 1 (Ipswich, 1846), pp. 81-96 [2]). For transcript and heraldry see File:All Saints Church, Dickleburgh, Norfolk - Wall monument - geograph.org.uk - 814569.jpg See also > 1774272. According to Stanley Wearing (Buildings in Norfolk) the memorial is of alabaster and black marble and was made by sculptor Edward Marshall (1578-1675) who was master-mason to Charles II. The 13th century tower of All Saints church > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1774225 adjoins a heavily restored nave and chancel and most of the interior dates from the 19th century, when the clerestory and most of the church windows were repaired, the box pews removed and a new east window > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1774253 installed. The Jacobean pulpit > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1774239 remained, as did the original baptismal font > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1774291 and the rood screen panels survived also. They are very unusual in that they contain many expertly executed small carvings depicting dragons, green men, angels, devils, a monk playing the pipes, sheep, a cat with kittens > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1774245 - pigs, dogs, birds, fish and a fox dragging a goose by its neck, including red specks of the goose's blood > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1774249.