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South window. In the head of the window are 1) The Brownlowe family motto -Esse Quam Videri- (Be, dont just appear to be). 2) Brownlowe crest: On a cap of maintenance proper. a greyhound or. 3) Arms for Brownlowe: Or an escutcheon between eight martlets sable. Arms for Cust: Ermine on a chevron sable three fountains proper. Supporters, Two lions reguardant argent gorged with collars paly wavy argent and azure. 4) Cust Earl Brownlow crest: A lion's head erased sable collared paly wavy of six argent and azure. 5) The Cust family motto -Opera illius mea sunt- (All my own work). There are four rows of shields. 1) Brownlowe of Belton: Brownlowe impaling Or a fess dancetty between three martlets azure, a bordure of the last, for Page of Wembley. 2) Inscription -The gift of Frances Lady Brownlow to Belton Church 1823-. 3) Cust of Pinchbeck: Cust with an escutcheon of pretence (for the wife): Argent a bend between three mullets sable, for Burrell of Dowsby. 4) Sir John Brownlowe, Bart. 1641. Arms: Brownlowe with a canton, argent a hand gules (signifying baronetcy), impaling Argent a fess dancetty gules, in chief three leopards faces sable, for Poultney. 5) Sir John Cust, Bart. Speaker 1761. Arms: Cust quartering Brownlowe. A canton of baronetcy. Inescutcheon of pretence: Sable a fess ermine, in chief three crosses patee fitchy argent, for Payne of Hough on the Hill. The shield lies on top of the crossed Speakers mace and an Order paper. 6) Sir Richard Cust, Bart. 1672. Arms: Cust quartered with Burrell. A canton of baronetcy. Inescutcheon of pretence: Argent on a fess between three martlets sable as many mullets of the first, for Pury. 7) Sir John Brownlowe, Bart. 1668. Arms: Brownlowe, a canton of baronetcy, impaled with Argent a chevron gules between three torteauxes, for Sherard of Lopethorpe. 8) Brownlow Baron Brownlow 1776. Arms: Cust quartering Brownlowe with a canton of baronetcy. Inescutcheon of pretence: Sable, a cross engrailed couped or, between four fleurs de lys argent, for Bankes of Wimbledon. 9) Sir Pury Cust, Knight 1691. Arms: Cust quartering Burrell. A label of three points sable (son of a living holder of the same Arms). Inescutcheon of pretence: Azure a fess ermine between three leopards passant or, for Woodcock of Newtimber, Essex. 10) Viscount Tyrconnel 1718. Arms: Brownlowe, baronet quartered with Argent a lion rampant azure, for Mason. Inescutcheon of pretence: Brownlowe for his first cousin Eleanor. Below the banner hangs a medallion with -Tria juncta in uno- (Three joined as one) with three domed crowns and a rose, leek and thistle. 11) John Earl Brownlow esq. Arms: Cust quartering Brownlowe, baronet, impaling: for his first wife Quarterly, Vert a lion rampant argent, for Hume, and Argent three martlets sable (standing for three popinjays vert), for Pepdie. For his second wife: Sable, between four escallops argent each charged with a cross patonce of the first, a cross patonce of the second, a crescent for difference, for Fludyer. 12) Sir Richard Cust, Bart. 1700. Arms: Cust quartering Woodcock. A canton of baronetcy. Inescutcheon of pretence, Brownlowe. (Photo May 2014).