Butterleigh

Butterleigh

Butterleigh

Village in Devon, England

Butterleigh is a village and civil parish in Mid Devon, England situated about three miles south east of Tiverton. The village includes a public house,[1] village hall, award-winning blacksmith and is famous for its harvest home.

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St Matthew's Church

The parish church of St Matthew has a 13th-century baptismal font, and an alms box predating King Charles I.

Monuments

In the church of St Matthew is a mural monument to Elizabeth Courtenay (d.1624), a daughter of Philip III Courtenay (1547-1611) of Molland by his wife Joane Boyes (d.1586), daughter of John Boyes of Kent. Elizabeth married in 1600[2] to the Hollander Peter Muden, a doctor of medicine, of Butterleigh. Shortly before 1600 Muden had enlarged the parish church[3] and later erected the existing mural monument to his wife which contains a female effigy between two children with verse.[4]

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Butterleigh, Mid Devon at Curlie

References

  1. [1]
    WhatPub.com Butterleigh Inn
  2. [2]
    Vivian, Heralds' Visitations of Devon, p.251
  3. [3]
    Lysons, Magna Britannia, Vol.6: Devon, 1822, Parishes: Bridestowe - Butterleigh, pp. 69-92
  4. [4]
    Polwhele, vol.2, p.256
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