COSTESSY, a parish in the hundred of FOREHOE, county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (N.W.by W.) from Norwich, containing 824 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, and in the patronage of ,the Mayor and Corporation of Norwich. The church is dedicated to St. Edmund. Here is a handsome Roman Catholic chapel, with pointed arched windows and painted glass, erected by Edward Jerningham, Esq.