User:Vexald/Sandbox/Exeter Cathedral: Speke Chantry
The Speke Chantry. also called the "Chapel of St George", is situated at the east end of the north choir. It holds the tomb of Sir John Speke (c.1442–1518), a local landowner, Sheriff of Devon and Member of Parliament. The chantry compliements the chantry of Bishop Hugh Oldham (c.1452 – 1519) which stands opposite in the south choir. The two men were friends and probably planned their memorials together.
The chapel has heraldry on its outer wall, mostly relating to Speke himself but also including the arms of Oldham and Courtenay, and the arms of the Dean and Chancellor of the cathedral. There are also four older coats of arms on its window, which were originally located in the Great East Window.
Arms on the screen
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Sir John Speke ((c.1442–1518).
Blazon: Argent, two bars azure over all an eagle with two heads displayed gules. Crest A porcupine. These arms appear twice (three times?) on the chantry wall. |
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Hugh Oldham ((c.1452-1519), Bishop of Exeter (1505–19).
Blazon: Argent, two bars azure over all an eagle with two heads displayed gules. Crest A porcupine. These arms appear twice (three times?) on the chantry wall. |
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Dean of Exeter.
Blazon: Azure, a stag's head cabossed or between the attires a cross pattée fitchy of the last. AZ. A STAG'S HEAD CABOSSED OR, BETW. THE ATTIRES A CROSS PATTÉE FITCHÉE OF THE LAST - Or??? |
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Treasurer of the Diocese of Exeter.
Blazon: Gules, a saltire engrailed between three leopards' heads or. |
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Treasurer of the Diocese of Exeter.
Blazon: Argent, two bars azure over all an eagle with two heads displayed gules (Speke) impaling Or, a castle triple-towered within an orle of five fleurs-de-lys samble **THIS IS MY BLAZON. BGA SAYS ARGENT!?**. |
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Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter (c.1498-1538).
Blazon: Quarterly, 1 & 4 Or, three torteaux, 2 & 3, Or, a lion rampant azure (Courtenay), impaling Quarterly 1 & 4, Azure, three fleurs-de-lys Or, 2 & 3 Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or. (England, for Catherine of York). |
Arms in the north window
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Royal arms of England
Blazon: Quarterly, 1st & 4th Azure, three fleurs=de-lys azure (France); 2nd & 3rd Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or (England). |
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Royal arms of England, white label charged with white annulets
Blazon: Quarterly, 1st & 4th Azure, three fleurs=de-lys azure (France); 2nd & 3rd Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or (England), overall a label of three points each charged with two annulets argent. The identity of these arms is uncertain. There are no recorded arms of a medieval prince with annulets on the label, and white objects would not be put on a white background.[1] |
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Anne of Bohemia (1366-1394), Queen of England 1382-1394.
Blazon: Quarterly, 1st & 4th Or, a double-headed eagle sable (Holy Roman Empire), 2nd & 3rd Gules, a lion rampant argent (Bohemia). The Bohemian lion normally wears a gold crown. |
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Royal arms of England
Blazon: Quarterly, 1st & 4th Azure, three fleurs=de-lys azure (France); 2nd & 3rd Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or (England). |
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FitzRobert, Daventer, Fallesley?
Blazon: Or, two chevrons gules. It is not clear who these arms are supposed to represent. |
Footnotes
- ↑ Roscoe Gibbs (1903) suggests the arms of England with annulets on the label might be an earlier arms of John, Duke of Bedford (?th son of Henry IV) but the annulets would not be white. Another suggestions is that they are decorative - a form of diapering - and these are intended to be the arms of the Prince of Wales.
Sources
- Allan, John. An archaeological record of the high eastern gable of Exeter Cathedral, 2015-18. Part 2 : The Great East Window. Prepared for the Dean & Chapter of Exeter Cathedral, 2022. (John Allan Archaeology Report 157/2022).
- Bedford, Rev. W.K. Riland. The blazon of episcopacy, Second edition.] Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897.
- Burke, Bernard. The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales ...] London : Harrison, 1884.
- Gibbs, Roscoe. "The heraldry and ancient stained glass in the Great East Window of Exeter Cathedral", in Devon notes and queries, Vol.3, January 1904-October 1905. pp.1-10.
