File:Monument RichardReynell Died1585 EastOgwellChurch Devon.PNG

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Monument to Richard Reynell (d.1585), lord of the manor of East Ogwell in Devon and in 1585 Sheriff of Devon. (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.643). South wall of south transept of East Ogwell Church. The remnant of the Reynell's manor house adjoins the church.

Following text based on: Adams, Maxwell, Some Notes on the Churches and manors of East and West Ogwell, published in Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol.32 (Vol.2, second series), Plymouth, 1900, pp.232-3[1][2]

Of the monuments the principal one is the altar tomb against the south wall of the south transept, or Reynell Chantry. This is a fine Elizabethan monument (without effigy) under an arch, over which is a pediment, surmounted by a small cross at the apex and supported on two columns, on the face of which are two plumed figures. The spandrels of the arch are each decorated with an open rose, rosebuds, and leaves. On the pediment are the arms of John Reynell, Richard's father, which are, quarterly:

• 1. Argent, masonry a chief indented sable (Reynell);
• 2. Argent, on a bend sable three bezants (Burden);
• 3. Azure, on a fess engrailed argent three lozenges gules (Stighull of East Ogwell);
• 4. Per pale argent and gules, on a chevron azure three cross-crosslets botonee or (Thorber),

impaling Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or a crescent for difference (Fortescue, for John Reynell's wife Margerie Fortescue, a daughter of William Fortescue of Preston in the parish of Newton Ferrers and of Wood in the parish of Woodleigh, both in Devon).

For a crest, a cherub's head, and for supporters, two angels, which are obviously non-heraldic.

Under the arch are the arms of Richard Reynell (d.1585), namely, quarterly: 1, Reynell; 2, Burden; 3, Stighull ; 4, Obliterated, impaling quarterly 1 and 4 Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three coots sable (Southcote); 2 and 3 Argent, on a fess sable between three birds of the last three mullets or (Pury, of Oxfordshire (and of Chudleigh, Devon (Vivian, p.697)); see quarterings of Callard in Heraldic Visitations of 1620; An heiress of Pury married Southcote, whose heiress married Callard (Adams, p.233, footnote 8)). This shield is surmounted by an esquire's helmet, on which is a fox passant or for the crest (canting crest, French: reynard = fox) and two foxes for supporters. The inscription is: "Virtus Post Funera Vivit" (Virtue lives after death"), between the initials "ER" and "AR", for Richard Reynell and his wife Agnes Southcote.

On the panels on the front of the tomb are three shields: (1) Reynell, quartered with Burden, Stighull, and Thorber, as in the shield on the pediment, impaling: Chequy or and gules a chief vair (Chichester), for John Reynell, MP for Devon (great uncle of John Reynell) and his wife Agnes Chichester; (2)Reynell impaling: Argent, three bull's heads sable armed or (Walrond), for Walter Reynell (d.1478) of Malston in the parish of Sherford, Devon, MP for Devon (grandfather of John Reynell) and his wife Joane Walrond, a daughter of William Walrond of Bradfield in the parish of Uffculme, Devon; and (3) Reynell impaling (blank). (Additional source: Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.643, pedigree of Reynell).

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