Weare Giffard facts for kids
Weare Giffard is a village and civil parish in Torridge, Devon, England. In 2001 there were 354 people living in Weare Giffard.
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Weare Giffard Church and Weare Giffard Hall, viewed from the southwest across the River Torridge on the Tarka Trail. The main modern settlement is situated to the right, some 1/2-mile upstream along the Torridge valley
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Weare Giffard Hall, manor house of Weare Giffard, North Devon. Viewed from the east at formal entrance gates
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Arms of Giffard: Sable, three fusils conjoined in fesse ermine. These arms can be seen in Chittlehampton Church, Devon, on the monument of John Giffard (d. 1622) of Brightley. They came to prominence again in the 19th century as the arms of Harding Giffard (1823–1921), Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, who was elevated to the peerage in 1885 as Baron Halsbury of Halsbury in the County of Devon, and was created Earl of Halsbury in 1898
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Arms of Denzell: Sable, a mullet in chief and a crescent in base argent
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1638 Mural monument in Weare Giffard Church to 3 generations of the Fortescue family. South wall of south aisle chapel ("Fortescue Chapel")
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Top tier figures of Hugh Fortescue and his wife Elizabeth Chichester, daughter of Sir John Chichester (d.1569) of Raleigh. On the side of the prie dieu is an escutcheon showing the arms of Fortescue impaling Chichester: Checky or and gules , a chief vair
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Chest tomb of Lady Eleanor Fortescue (1798–1847), chancel of Weare Giffard Church
