Image: RobertFitzHamon &RichardDeGrenville 1860Window Kilkhampton

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Description: 1860 imaginary depiction of Robert FitzHamon (d.1107) (left) and his younger brother Richard de Grenville (d. post 1142) (right). Below the left-hand figure is inscribed: "Rob. FitzHamon Earl of Corboyle", with attributed arms under showing: Azure, alion rampant guardant or impaling Azure, a lion rampant or a bordure of the last. Below the right hand figure of Richard de Granville, who holds in his hands the church of his foundation of Neath Abbey, is inscribed: "Ric. de Granville Earl of Corboyle" with attributed arms under showing: Gules, three clarions or (the arms of his overlord the de Clare, Earl of Gloucester) with an inescutcheon of pretence of Gules, three lions passant argent. Detail from 1st (east) Grenville Window (1860) in south wall of Grenville Chapel, Church of St James the Great, Kilkhampton, Cornwall. Window erected in 1860 jointly by descendants of of the Grenville family: George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland KG (1786-1861); John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath (1831–1896); George Granville Francis Egerton, 2nd Earl of Ellesmere (1823–1862); Lord John Thynne (1798-1881), DD, Canon of Westminster, a younger son of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath (1765-1837), KG.
Title: RobertFitzHamon &RichardDeGrenville 1860Window Kilkhampton
Credit: own photo
Author: Stained glass window by Clayton & Bell, 1860
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License: Public domain
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