Image: BaldwinFulford (1801-1871) Brass DunsfordChurch Devon

Description: Monumental brass of Col. Baldwin III Fulford (1801-1871) of Great Fulford, Dunsford, Devon. Fulford Chapel of Dunsford Church. Inscribed: "In hoc caemeterio cum longa serie majorum sepultus jacet Baldewinus de Fulford Baldewini et Annae Mariae filius et haeres, Regni et Ecclesiae Anglicanae (sicut omnes eius proavi) egregius defensator. Obiit Westoniae SM die mensis Maii secundo AD 1871. Uxor eius Anna Isabella amantissima et amatissima vitream hanc fenestram in memoriam poni curavit. O Baldewine magnam es mihi desiderium!". (In this cemetery with a long line of his ancestors lies buried Baldwin de Fulford, son and heir of Baldwin and of Anna Maria. An outstanding defender (just as (were) all his predecessors) of the Anglican Kingdom and Church. He died at Weston, S(o)m(erset), on the second day of the month of May AD 1871. His wife Anna Isabella, most beloved and most loving, caused this glazed window to be erected in (his) memory. O Baldwin, a great loss you are to me!). At left is an heraldic achievement showing the arms of Fulford (Gules, a chevron argent) impaling Giles (Azure, a cross between four cups uncovered or on a chief argent three pelicans vulning themselves proper) (Berry, William, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Vol.4[1]) with supporters two Saracens and crest of Fulford: A bear's head and neck erased
Title: BaldwinFulford (1801-1871) Brass DunsfordChurch Devon
Credit: Self-photographed
Author: (Lobsterthermidor (talk) 13:39, 1 July 2015 (UTC))
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