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Church of St Michael

A Grade II* Listed Building in Appleby Magna, Leicestershire

Heraldic shields, formerly part of the glazing, Church of St Michael and All Angels, Appleby Magna

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The heraldic coloured glass is lost, but there are painted shield in the church, based on pictures of them drawn c1800 and published in John Nichols History and Antiquities of Leicestershire
1) Or on a cross engrailed azure five mullets of the field (Benedictine Abbey at Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, for Wulfric Spot, the founder).
2) Barry nebuly of six or and sable (Blunt)
3) Azure a cinquefoil ermine (Astley) Impaling Or two bars gules (Harecourt)
4) Argent seme of crosses crosslet fitchy gules three fleurs de lis sable (Beresford)
5) Gules three lions passant guardant (England)
6) Argent three bears heads erased sable muzzled or langued gules (Langham)
(Photos Sept 2015)

Uploaded by Andrew H Jackson on 2 May 2020

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Building ID: 101177814
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