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English: Ceiling of St Bridget's Chapel (North Aisle Chapel / North Chancel Chapel) (early 15th century) within Swimbridge Church, Devon. South at top, north at bottom. John Mules of Ernesborough in the parish of Swimbridge, built this Chapel "the north aisle of the church", according to Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, pp.324. "Repainted in 1727 as a date shows" (Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.771). For discussion of the heraldry see: Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, The Antient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, Exeter, 1877, pp.299-301[1] Arms on bosses of central beam, north to south:
  • 1: St George
  • 2: Cary (Argent, on a bend sable three roses of the field) impaling Orchard (Azure, a chevron argent between three pears pendant or). This appears to memorialise the marriage between Sir Philip Cary (died 1437) of Cockington, Devon, and Cristiana de Orchard of (Orchard Wyndham), Somerset (w:Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.150)
  • 3: Mules / de Moels of Ernsborough (Argent, two bars gules in chief three torteaux)
  • 4: Mules impaling Dennis Dennis of Orleigh in the parish of Buckland Brewer, Devon (Azure, three Danish battle axes erect or). Also shown on the monument in nearby Bishop's Tawton Church to John Mules (d.1633) of Halmpston in the parish of Bishop's Tawton, the inscription on which states his descent from Mules of Ernsborough and from w:John de Moels, 1st Baron Moels (1269–1310) of North Cadbury, Somerset.
  • 5: (obscured by organ) Copleston of Copleston, Colebrooke, Devon (Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three leopard's faces azure), impaling Azure fretty, argent (unknown family), overall a bend sinister apparently denoting bastardy (a strip of tape stuck on). Marriage not identifiable from Coppleston pedigree in Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.224-33
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Author Lobsterthermidor (talk) 18:55, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

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