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Title*

Cullum coat-of-arms
County Suffolk   District Council St Edmunsbury District Council 
Civil Parish or equivalent Hawstead  Town/Village* Hawstead 
Road Church Road 
Precise Location Above doorway of former village school 
OS Grid Ref TL859590  Postcode IP29 
Previous location(s)  
Setting On building  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
Not known  Architect(s)   

Commissioned by

 Cullum family in memory of Thomas Gery Cullum (?) 

Design & Constrn period

  

Date of installing

 1845 

Exact date of unveiling

  

Category
Abstract Animal Architectural
Commercial Commemorative Composite
Free Functional Funerary
Heraldic Military Natural
Non-Commemorative Performance Portable
Religious Roadside, Wayside Sculptural
Temporary, Mobile Other  

Object Type
Building Clock Tower Architectural
Coat of Arms Cross Fountain
Landscape Marker Medallion
Mural Panel Readymade
Relief Shaft Sculpture
Statue Street Furniture War Memorial
Other Object Sub Type: Coat of arms

Subject Type
Allegorical Mythological Pictorial
Figurative Non-figurative Portrait
Still-life Symbolic Other

Subject Sub Type
Bust Equestrian Full-length
Group Head Reclining
Seated Standing Torso
Part Material Dimension
Coat of arms  Stone   

Work is
Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

 Private 

Listing status
Grade I Grade II* Grade II Don't Know Not Listed

Surface Condition
Corrosion, Deterioration Accretions
Bird Guano Abrasions, cracks, splits
Biological growth Spalling, crumbling
Metallic staining Previous treatments
Other  
Detail:

Structural Condition
Armature exposed Broken or missing parts
Replaced parts Loose elements
Cracks, splits, breaks, holes Spalling, crumbling
Water collection Other
Detail:

Vandalism
Graffiti Structural damage Surface Damage
Detail:

Overall condition
Good Fair Poor

Risk
No Known Risk At Risk Immediate
Signatures/Marks  
Inscriptions Hawstead School T.G.C A.C. 1845 

Description (physical)

 The coat-of-arms is set above the entrance to the former Hawstead village school, opened in 1845 and closed shortly after world war II, when it became a private house. The coat of arms illustrates the Cullums' knightly background with the helmet, strength in the column (a punning reference to Cullum) resisting the lion and piety through the pelican plucking at her breast to feed her young ones. It is is an imaginative version of that of the Cullum family at Hardwick House in Bury St Edmunds, which the family had acquired in 1656, but which was destroyed in 1922. The connection with the Cullums is highlighted in the inscription T.G.C. which must refer to Thomas Gery Cullum, 7th baronet (1741-1831), a distinguished writer on natural history and on that of Hawstead.  

Description (iconographical)

  

Photographs

 Date taken:  17/3/2011
Date logged: 

Photographed by:
Sarah Cocke

On Site Inspection

 Date:  17/3/2011

Inspected by:
Richard Cocke

Sources and References

 imagesofengland.org.uk accessed 19/03/2011; Wikipedia, Thomas Gery Cullum, accessed 25/03/2011 

Database

 Date entered:  25/3/2011

Data inputter:
Richard Cocke