Image: St Mary's Church, Shelton, Norfolk - Window - geograph.org.uk - 1029382

Description: St Mary's Church, Shelton, Norfolk - stained glass window showing w:Sir John Shelton of Shelton Hall and his wife Anne Boleyn (c.1483-1555) a daughter of Sir William Boleyn (1451–1505) of Blickling by his wife Lady Margaret Butler, the daughter of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond. She was the aunt of Queen Anne Boleyn. <ref>'Hundred of Depwade: Shelton', in F. Blomefield, An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, Vol. 5 (W. Miller, London 1806), pp. 263-74 (British History Online). See at norfolk stained glass: the restored glass shows some rearrangement since Blomefield's time. Text per Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 1 (1885),, p.200 [1] Shields in the East Window of the South Aisle. XIX. Shelton. XX. Boleyn. XXI. Ermine, an eagle displayed gules (Bedingfeld); impaling Shelton. XXII. Shelton, impaling, Per pale or and gules, a lion passant argent (Plais of Tofts) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.807 "Playse/Plaiz of Tofte, Norfolk") ("Baron Plaiz", per Cokayne, G. E.; H. A. Doubleday & Lord Howard de Walden, eds. (1945). The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times (Oakham to Richmond). 10 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press, pp.535-) Latinised to "de Plessetis". See arms on Boroughbridge Roll: Per pale or and gules, a lion passant argent for Richard de Plaiz, 2nd Baron Plaiz (1296-1327) (GEC Peerage, Vol.X, p.540, note (d)). Sir Ralph Shelton (1315-1378) married twice, firstly to his cousin, Anne Burgullion, the daughter and heiress of Sir Ralph Burgullion of Great Snoring, Suffolk; second to Joan De Plays. (www.tudorplace.com [2]) Farrer: "This church contained a very great deal of heraldic glass, in fact " all the matches of the Shelton family." There is not much left now. The arms of Shelton and Boleyn are introduced amidst the tracery and framework of the east window, as also on the dresses of the figures, and above the heads of the founders of the church, Sir John Shelton and his wife. Between the clerestory windows there are twenty shields, twelve of which bear the arms of Shelton, and eight the family rebus, "an escallop shell and a tun."
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