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Parish Church of St Helen

A Grade I Listed Building in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire

Rectangular brass with painted heraldic lozenge to Selina Countess of Huntingdon.

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On the chancel floor. Rectangular brass with painted heraldic lozenge to Selina Countess of Huntingdon. In Veritate Victoria. The Annunciation Window at the west end of this Church is erected by the Congregation of Spa Fields Chapel London and by friends of the College at Cheshunt to the Gory of God and to perpetuate the Memory of Selina Countess of Huntingdon who after a life of Exemplary Usefulness died xviiith (18th) June mdccxci (1791) in the lxxxivth (84th) year of her age at her house in Spa Fields London and is buried in the Chancel of this Church. -My work is done. I have nothing to do but to go to my Father-. Arms: Quarterly 1. Argent a maunch sable (Hastings Earl of Huntingdon), 2. Sable two bars in chief three roundels argent (Hungerford), 3. Or on a bend sable three stags heads cabossed argent (Stanley, Earl of Derby), 4 France quartering England a label of three points argent.(George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence). Inescutcheon, Quarterly of 8: 1 and 8, Paly of six or and azure a canton ermine (Shirley), 2 Or three piles gules a canton ermine (Basset of Drayton), 3. Azure a lion rampant between six crosses crosslet or (Brewes with 8 cc), 4. Vairy argent and sable a canton gules (?Meynell), 5. Sable a fess gules and in chief three torteauxes (Devereux, Earl of Essex), 6. Vairy or and gules (Ferrers), 7. Argent two bars and in chief three mullets gules (Washington). Supporters, two man tigers rampant, the dexter reguardant. A countesses coronet. (Photo Aug 2015).

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Photo ID: 231917
Building ID: 101188344
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