Human settlement in England
| Butterleigh | |
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.jpg) St Matthews Church in Butterleigh | |
  ButterleighLocation within Devon | |
| Population | 110 (2021 UK Census) |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
| 50°51′48″N 3°27′34″W / 50.863450°N 3.459320°W / 50.863450; -3.459320 | |
Butterleigh is a village and civil parish in Mid Devon, England situated 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 baptismal 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 to the Hollander Peter Muden, a doctor of medicine, of Butterleigh. Shortly before 1600 Muden had enlarged the parish church and later erected the existing mural monument to his wife which contains a female effigy between two children with verse.
References
- WhatPub.com Butterleigh Inn
- Vivian, Heralds' Visitations of Devon, p.251
- Lysons, Magna Britannia, Vol.6: Devon, 1822, Parishes: Bridestowe - Butterleigh, pp. 69-92
- Polwhele, vol.2, p.256
Media related to Butterleigh at Wikimedia Commons
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