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| Keywords: BevilGrenvilleOvermantleBideford.JPG en Plaster relief sculpted overmantle c 1643 1st Floor Room no 8A The Quay Bideford Devon Popularly supposed to be of Sir Bevil Grenville 1596-1643 of Bideford Devon and Stowe Kilkhampton Cornwall On either side of the figure within strapwork surrounds are escutcheons bearing the Grenville arms of Three clarions William Henry Rogers ˜Notes on Bideford ™ 1935 page 77 In the Board Room of the Gas Company ™s office is a plaster mantelpiece and frieze In the centre is a full-length figure of Sir Bevil GRENVILLE with the GRENVILLE arms on either side This mantelpiece was discovered when the house then the Three Tuns Tavern was dismantled and re-edified by the Gas Company The house was Sir Bevil ™s Town House and was known as ˜New Place ™ to distinguish it from ˜Old Place ™ the original manor house at the west end of the Bridge It has more recently c 2012 been dated to post 1660 and may therefore have come from the demolished Stowe House Kilkhampton Cornwall built by Sir Bevil's son Sir John Grenville 1st Earl of Bath 1628-1701 Examined by Peter Hood a leading authority on the English Civil War historical consultant to Bideford 500 Heritage Group and mastermind behind Torrington 1646 who stated that the coat which the man on the overmantle is wearing is called a ˜Dutchcoat ™ They originated from the Netherlands before the Civil War but were originally much shorter almost like a waistcoat It was only after the Restoration that a new design emerged of a much longer three-quarter length This is known as the ˜Jacobean Dutchcoat ™ and is what we see the figure wearing in this overmantle The shoes depicted here are also of a fashion from a period later than 1660 http //www nimrodresearch co uk/grenville/pdf/Grenville 20research pdf own photo photo by Lobsterthermidor <span class signature-talk >talk</span> 19 45 1 December 2012 UTC Plaster relief sculpture c 1643; photo 2012 Bevil Grenville Bideford Sculptures in Devon | ||||
