Butterleigh

Butterleigh
St Matthews Church in Butterleigh
St Matthews Church in Butterleigh
Butterleigh is located in Devon
Butterleigh
Butterleigh
Location within Devon
Population110 (2021 UK Census)
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireDevon and Somerset
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

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.

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]

References

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

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