murder of Lorenz Beha by William Thomson. Notable buildings Parish church of Saint Mary The parish church of Saint Mary has a nave built in the perpendicular style which is illuminated with transomed windows. There is a canonical sundial on the south wall. The chancel and west tower are in the decorated style. The chancel has a large Decorated five-light window with reticulated tracery, and there is an elaborately moulded tower arch on the west tower. The church has a Kingpost roof. The church was used over many years by members of the Coke family who had bought the Tittleshall manor following the reformation, as part of their expansion of the Holkham Estate. Saint Mary's was chosen as the final resting place for many of the Coke family during the post medieval period. There are a number of Coke family monuments at Saint Mary's dating from 1598 up unto the building of the family mausoleum at Holkham in the 1870s, including memorials to Edward Coke and to his first wife Bridget Paston. On the west wall of the nave there is an old Tittleshall School honours board which bears the names of eighteen children who passed scholarships to grammar school during the first sixty years of the twentieth century. Several of these names also appear on the war memorial. Notable residents Edward Coke, English jurist and Member of Parliament whose writings on the common law were the definitive legal texts for nearly 150 years William Hoste, Royal Navy captain during the Napoleonic Wars E. W. Bullinger, noted and controversial Anglican scholar, served as parish curate in Tittleshall from 1863 to 1866. Reginald Digby (1867–1927), cricketer; born at Tittleshall Benjamin Whatley, Lance Corporal of 42 Commando Royal Marines, who was killed in Afghanistan on 24 December 2008. Notes External links http://www.tittleshall.com Information from Genuki Norfolk on Tittleshall. Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk Breckland District