Butterleigh

Butterleigh
St Matthews Church in Butterleigh
St Matthews Church in Butterleigh
Butterleigh
 Butterleigh shown within Devon
Population 102 (2011 UK Census)
DistrictMid Devon
Shire countyDevon
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Police Devon and Cornwall
Fire Devon and Somerset
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentTiverton and Honiton
List of places
UK
England
Devon

Coordinates: 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]

Media related to Butterleigh at Wikimedia Commons

Butterleigh, Mid Devon at DMOZ

References

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


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