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Description: Old Vicarage, Barnstaple, Devon, England. In 2018 serving as a dentist's surgery. Rev. Henry Luxmore (born 1793, Bridestowe, Devon), Vicar of Barnstaple 1820-60 (Chanter, p.100), added to and restored (Chanter, p.51) the ancient vicarage, previously rebuilt during the Civil War by the famous Rev. Martin Blake, (Chanter, p.51) whose son's monument survives in St Peter's Church, Barnstaple. (Chanter, J.R., Memorials Descriptive and Historical, of the Church of St Peter, Barnstaple, with its other ecclesiastical antiquities, and an account of the conventual church of St Mary Magdalene, recently discovered. Barnstaple, 1882.) The arms of Luxmore (Argent, two chevronells gules between three moorcocks close proper) are sculpted in the left spandrel of the porch, with the arms of the See of Exeter in the right spandrel.
Title: OldVicarage Barnstaple Devon
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Author: Lobsterthermidor (talk) 12:42, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
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