Village sign

One in a VERY irregular series of Norfolk village signs - I keep meaning to take more photos, but something else generally takes priority on Blip.

This is just beside our local Post Office and One Stop supermarket.  It was looking good in the sunshine this morning when I popped to the PO to post a letter for W.  I searched the internet to find more about it.  It was designed and painted by Mrs Sheelah Michalski, a parish councillor, and unveiled in 1976.  The trees represent the arboretum planted by a local surgeon, Dr Edward Rigby, and further developed by Sir Timothy Colman.  The doorway is apparently the door of the parish church.  

I can find no information about who the knight represents - it may be the Earl of Norfolk, as the suffix Earl was attached to the name of the village in medieval times when a manor at Framingham was held by the Earl of Norfolk, but I have no idea why he would be sporting a shield with the Cross of St Andrew.