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Church of St Michael

A Grade I Listed Building in Chagford, Devon

St Michael: arms from the memorial to John Prouse of Chagford, d.1664

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Arms are Prouse & the wives of his ancestors (dexter side) earliest first

(i) Prouse (sa. three lions ramp, arg.)
(ii) Redvers (or a lion rampant azure)
(iii) Dinham (gu. four fusils conjoined in fess erm.)
(iv) Gidlegh (sa. seven rows of three bezants)
(v) Ferrers (or, on a bend sa., three horse-shoes arg.)
(vi) Pont (sa. an almond argent, a bordure of the last)
(vii) Wadacott (arg. a bend gu. on a chief vert a cinquefoil of the first)
(viii) Cruwys (az. a bend per bend dancette arg. & gu. between six escallops or)
(ix) Norton (arg. a fess dancetee gu. in chief two martlets sa.)
(x) Orchard (az. a chevron arg. between three pears or)
(xi) Cole (arg. an ass passant between two mullets, gu.)
(xii) Cobbe (per chev. gu. and sa.; in chief two teals arg., in base a fish naiant or)

On the sinister side are the quartered arms of Arscott (per chev. az. and erm. in chief two stags' heads, caboshed or) and of Lippincott (party per fess embattled gu. & sa. in base a leopard cat passant gardant arg.)

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on 29 March 2024

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Building ID: 101308610
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