Butterleigh
| Butterleigh | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
.jpg) St Matthews Church in Butterleigh | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SS974081 |
| Location: | 50°51’50"N, 3°27’32"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 102 (2011) |
| Post town: | Cullompton |
| Postcode: | EX15 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Mid Devon |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Tiverton and Honiton |
Butterleigh is a village in Devon, about three miles south east of Tiverton. The village includes a public house, village hall, award-winning blacksmith and is famous for its harvest home.
St Matthew's Church
The parish church of St Matthew has a 13th-century font, and an alms box predating King Charles I.
Monuments
In the church of St Matthew is a mural monument to Elizabeth Courtenay (d.1624), a daughter of Philip III Courtenay (1547-1611) of Molland by his wife Joane Boyes (d.1586), daughter of John Boyes of Kent. Elizabeth married in 1600[1] to the Hollander Peter Muden, a doctor of medicine, of Butterleigh. Shortly before 1600 Muden had enlarged the parish church[2] and later erected the existing mural monument to his wife which contains a female effigy between two children with verse.[3]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Butterleigh) |
