Butterleigh

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Butterleigh
St Matthews Church in Butterleigh
St Matthews Church in Butterleigh
Butterleigh is located in Devon
Butterleigh
Butterleigh
Location within Devon
Population102 (2011 UK Census)
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
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50°51′48″N 3°27′34″W / 50.863450°N 3.459320°W / 50.863450; -3.459320Coordinates: 50°51′48″N 3°27′34″W / 50.863450°N 3.459320°W / 50.863450; -3.459320

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

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[1] to the Hollander Peter Muden, a doctor of medicine, of Butterleigh. Shortly before 1600 Muden had enlarged the parish church[2] and later erected the existing mural monument to his wife which contains a female effigy between two children with verse.[3]

External links[]

Media related to Butterleigh at Wikimedia Commons

Butterleigh, Mid Devon at Curlie

References[]

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


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