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Parish Church of St Helen

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

Theophilus 7th Earl of Huntingdon 1701, wives Elizabeth and Frances, Church of St Helen, Ashby de la Zouch

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Wall monument with half columns surmounted by winged cherubs heads. Four shields of Arms. The inscription is in Latin and mentions his wives, first Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Lewis 1st baronet and second, Frances daughter of Francis Levison Fowler esq. Shield at the top, with 20 quarterings: 1) Hastings. 2) Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence. 3) Pole. 4) Nevill. 5) Nevill. 6) Montacute. 7. Monthermer. 8) Azure semee de lis a lion rampant guardant argent (Holland). 9) Plantagenet, Edmund Earl of Kent. 10) Beauchamp. 11) Lozengy ermine and gules a bordure (?azure bezantee) (Fitzwilliam). 12) Spencer. 13) Clare. 14) Hungerford. 15) Botreaux. 16) Moels. 17) Sable on a chief argent three lozenges gules (Molynes). 18) Argent five lozenges conjoined in fess gules (Newmarch). 19) Argent on a bend azure three stags heads cabossed or (Stanley) 20) Azure two lions passant in pale or (Somery alias Dudley). At the base are three shields. Central: 1) Hastings. 2) Plantagenet. 3) Pole. 4) Hungerford. Left: (Central) impaling Or a chevron between three trefoils slipped sable (for Lewis). Right (Central) impaling Quarterly 1) Azure on a chevron argent between three lions passant guardant or, three crosses moline sable (Fowler) 2) Argent three holly eaves slipped vert (for Leveson) 3) Barry of seven sable and argent in chief a lion passant or (?for Tregose). 4) Argent two bars azure over all a bend lozengy gules and argent (?for Leigh). (Photo Aug 2015).

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on 18 April 2020

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Photo ID: 231992
Building ID: 101188344
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