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Church of St Leonard and Attached Boundary Wall

A Grade II* Listed Building in Nottingham, City of Nottingham

Shields on monument to Henry Willoughby 1591, Church of St Leonard, Wollaton

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The main shield. Quarterly of 13, 1 Or upon two bars gules three water bougets argent (Willoughby of Willoughby, Nottinghamshire, canting arms from his ancestor Bugge), 2 Or a cross patonce gules (Freville), 3 Vairy of azure and argent a fess gules fretty or (Marmyon), 4 Sable a sword point downwards argent hilt and pommel or (Kilpeck), quartered by Willoughby. Kilpec Castle heiress married Philip Marmyon of Tamworth Castle, hereditary Kings Champion), 5 Bendy of ten azure and or (Mountforte of Beaudesert), 6 Argent billety a lion rampant sable crowned or langued gules (De la Planche), 7 Azure between six crosses crosslet a fess argent (Haversham), 8 Or a saltire engrailed sable (Buttetourt of Welley Castle), 9 Or two lions passant azure langued gules (Dudley alias Somery of Warwickshire), 10 Gules ten bezants 4 3 2 1 or (De la Zouche), 11 Vairy of azure and argent a canton gules (Filioll of Woodland), 12 Azure seme of cross crosslets a lion rampant or armed and langued gules (Braose), 13 Argent three hurts each charged with as many chevrons or. (Carrant, Somerset a quartering of Filliol).
Impaling: Quarterly of 8: Barry of six or and azure in chief three torteaux (Earl Grey), 2 Or a maunch gules (Hastings), 3 Barrily azure and argent an orle of martlets gules (Valence, Earl of Pembroke), 4 Gules seven mascles 3 3 1 or (Gules seven mascles conjoined or (Ferrers of Groby), 5 Azure a cinquefoil ermine (Astley heiress m Grey), 6 Argent a fess and canton conjoined gules (Badlesmere), 7 Azure six mullets 3 2 1 argent (?Walsh, Gloucester is Azure six mullets 3 2 1 or), 8 Sable fretty argent (Harrington). A label of three points ermine for difference
Crest An owl argent beaked legged and crowned or (Willoughby)
Dexter shield Willoughby impaling sable on a cross engrailed between four eagles displayed or five lions passant gardant of the field (Paget), representing Francis and his wife
Sinister shield Sable six swallows argent 3 2 1 a mullet or for difference (Arundell) impaling Willoughby, representing Margaret and her husband.
Two finials with a pair of spears, tied, on the front of each obelisk.
Shield under sinister obelisk repeats the 13 coats in the dexter main shield. (Photo Mar 2018).

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on 10 June 2018

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Photo ID: 212870
Building ID: 101255283
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