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English: St Michael's Church, Broome, Norfolk, stone slab, former top of a now destroyed chest tomb (?) with remains of monumental brasses supposed to be of Robert de Brome (died 1453/5) of Broome Hall, and his wife Olivia Winter/Wynter, possibly a daughter of Edmund Wynter (d.1448), of Barningham Winter, Norfolk, six times a Member of Parliament for the prestigious county seat of Norfolk, by his first wife Olive Hampton, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Hampton of Hampton Richards, Herefordshire. (Source: WYNTER, Edmund (d.1448), of Barningham Winter, Norf. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993[1]). Parts of the speech-scrolls survive, with two shields and the matrices showing positions of robbed brasses. The slab is now positioned upright in a splay of a nave window. Source: (Mills Stephenson, "A list of Monumental Brasses in the British Isles", quoted in [2])

Arms: two shields showing:

• Centre: Ermine, a chief indented gules (Brome) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.128 "Brome of Broom Hall, Suffolk and Norfolk");
• Top left: Brome impaling: Chequy or and sable, a fess argent (Winter) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1124 "Winter of Berningham, Norfolk");

Broome Hall stood next to the chuirch but was demolished in 1825, possibly with the original village nucleus, and now the church stands isolated, one mile from the village. (The Guide to Norfolk Churches: Third Revised and Enlarged Edition, By D P Mortlock, C V Roberts, p.51[3]) Descent of the manor of Broome Hall (text per: Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of Giltcross: Norton', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 1 (London, 1805), pp. 242-249 [4]):

Brome Hall Manor was so called from the family of the Bromes, who had one part of it of the grant of the Bygots, in very early days, the other part coming to them from Roger de Somery, whose ancestors had it of the Earl Warren's gift. It seems that Roger, son of William de Brom, married Petronilla, (fn. 6) one of the heiresses of Roger de Somery; for in an inquisition taken in the time of Henry III. it is said, that he held it jointly with her, as part of the inheritance of Roger de Somery, of the Earl of Arundell; this was about 1280; in 1302, they settled the manor and advowson on themselves for life, then on William de Brom, their son and heir, remainder to Robert, their other son, Henry de Brom (brother to Roger) being trustee. In the next year Roger died, and left William, his son and heir, who died before his mother, so that Robert de Brom, his brother, at his mother Petronell's death, which was before 1443, inherited the whole, it being settled by her on him and Joan his wife, in tail, in the year 1336, by a fine then levied between them and Edmund Bacon, parson of Corton, in Suffolk, and Robert de Jernemuth, or Yarmouth; in an inquisition in 1345, it is said that he held both the parts of this manor, and paid a relief of x.s. to the Earl of Arundell, for the half part held of him, at a quarter of a fee, and x.s. to the Earl Warren, as a relief for the other half, that being held of him at a quarter of a fee. In 1363, he held it jointly with Roger Brom, his eldest son. In 1401, Robert Brome, Esq. son of the last Roger, had it, who died intestate in 1453, leaving Olive his widow, who administered, John Broome, Esq. his son, being very young; he afterwards was lord, and left it, at his death, to Henry Brome, his son and heir, who left it to James Brome, his son and heir, who died without issue about 1510, and it descended to his two sisters, viz. Mary Jermy, and Anne, first married to Rob. Stede, Esq. after to John Brampton, and then to Rob. Rookwood, Gent.; at her death the whole went to Thomas Brampton, her son and heir, who had purchased the other moiety in 1533, of Edward Jermy, son and heir of Mary Broome, by Jermy, her first husband, she and Ralph Shelton, Esq. son of Sir John Shelton, Knt. her second husband, joining, to make a complete title; and thus it was joined to Semere Hall Manor.

St Michael's church > 1406557 - 1406574 is located some distance away from the village at the end of an unsurfaced track and surrounded by fields on all sides > 1406536. Until 1825 Broome Hall used to keep it company, adjoining the church in the north but the buildings have since been demolished and nothing remains. The church dates largely from the 14th and 15th centuries but after an extensive restoration in the 19th century nothing much has survived which dates from before this time. The octagonal font bowl is a 19th century replacement which rests on the original late C14 stem > 1406585. The south door > 1406572 is medieval and there are two small stained glass roundels high up in the tracery of a nave south window.