Keywords: ChristopherLethbridge1713PiltonChurchDevon.JPG en Mural monument to Christopher Lethbridge d 1713 of Westaway in parish of Pilton Devon South aisle wall of Pilton Church Devon Arms of Lethbridge Argent over water proper a bridge of five arches embattled gules and over the centre arch a turret in chief an eagle displayed sable charged on the breast with a bezant Debrett's Peerage 1968 Lethbridge Baronets p 497 The arms here show only 3 arches no turret and no bezant The arms above the inscription are of Robert Incledon 1676-1758 of Pilton House Argent a chevron engrailed between three tuns sable fire issuing from the bung hole proper impaling those of his first wife Mary Lethbridge d 1709 a daughter of Christopher Lethbridge of Westaway Below are shown impaled by Lethbridge the arms of his wife a daughter of Philip Bowchier Ermine a cross chequy gules and or between four water bougets gules which appears here as Argent a cross chequy gules and or between four water bougets gules each between four ermine spots These are a differenced version of the arms of Bourchier Earls of Bath of nearby Tawstock Court Argent a cross engrailed gules between four water bougets sable The Bourchier Earls of Bath which name was spelled historically in various ways died out in the male line in 1654 on the death of the 5th Earl It is not known what relationship if any the Bowchiers of Westaway see Reed Margaret A Pilton its Past and its People Barnstaple 1985 p 243 were to the Bourchiers of Tawstock They were clearly not in the line of succession to the titles Earl of Bath extinct post 1654 Baron FitzWarin and Baron Daubeney post 1654 abeyant between daughters of 4th Earl one line of which is today represented by the Wrey Baronets of Tawstock Latin inscription Juxta hoc monumentum quod ipse in sui suorumque memoriam vivus vidensque extraxerat jacet Christopherus Lethbridge Armiger qui natus annos 59 mortem obiit Junii 28 Annoque Domini 1713 Huius reliquiis suas adjunxit Margareta uxor Philippi Bowchier Generosi filia maritum vidua decennii intervallo secuta viz die Nov embris 3tio tertio Anno Christi 1723 Pari amoris foedere conjunctos par i annorum terminus clausit Transcribed by Rev William Henry Morris Bagley Vicar of Pilton in his book 'Some Account of Pilton Priory and Church' 1907 http //medicalgentlemen co uk/charities/pilton-large-detail Literally translated as Next to this Monument which he himself alive and seeing in his lifetime brought to light extraho -traxi tractum lit 'to pull out' in memory of himself and of his i e family lies Christopher Lethbridge Esquire who having been born for 59 years departed unto death on the 28th of June and in the year of Our Lord 1713 To the remains of him his wife Margaret added her own the daughter of Philip Bowchier Gentleman with an interval of a decade as a widow followed her husband that is to say on the third day of November in the year of Our Lord 1723 Having been united by an equal covenant of love she closed her ending with an equal number of years Translated as follows by Rev William Henry Morris Bagley Vicar of Pilton in his book 'Some Account of Pilton Priory and Church' 1907 http //medicalgentlemen co uk/charities/pilton-large-detail Near this Monument which he himself in his lifetime erected under his own supervision in memory of himself and his family lies Christopher Lethbridge Esquire who died on the 28th June in the year of our Lord 1713 aged 59 years Mingling her remains with his Margaret his wife the daughter of Philip Bouchier sic actual spelling on monument is Bowchier Gentleman followed her husband after an interval of ten years which she passed in widowhood namely on the 3rd of November in the year of Christ 1723 United by an equal bond of love an equal number of years closed their lives own photo photo by Lobsterthermidor <span class signature-talk >talk</span> 00 00 18 December 2012 UTC 1713; photo 2012 Wall mounted church monuments in Devon St Mary's church Pilton Devon interior Incledon arms Lethbridge arms Bowchier of Westaway Pilton arms |