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English: Heraldic window in Churston Ferrers Church, Devon. The window was commissioned in 1864 by John Yarde-Buller, 1st Baron Churston (1799–1871), lord of the manor, and comprises 19th century modern glass with 16th century fragments taken from elsewhere in the church, (Tregaskes, Jean, Churston Story: 1088-1998, p.16) most notably 16th century arms of the Yarde family, lords of the manor of Churston Ferrers. Arms of Yarde: Argent, a chevron gules between three water bougets sable. The arms of Yarde are shown impaling Wadham, Halse, and Bampfield, denoting the marriages of three generations of the Yarde family in the 15th and early 16th centuries. The top two outermost roundels are modern 19th century shields displaying arms of Buller, which family inherited Churston-Ferrers by marriage to the Yarde heiress. The top-most shield displays Gilbert (Argent, on a chevron gules three roses of the field) impaling Champernowne (Gules, a saltire vair between twelve billets or), for the marriage of Otes Gilbert (1513-1547) of Greenway in the parish of Churston Ferrers, to Katherine Champernowne, 4th daughter of Sir Philip Champernowne oif Modbury, 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.405, pedigree of Gilbert of Compton). Also shown is a shield bearing: Azure, three bird-bolts in fess or, supposed to the arms of Boson/Bosum, etc, of Boson's Hele in the parish of Dittisham, Devon, a branch of which family were lords of the manor in the 13th century. In 1303 The co-heiress Alice Boson Ferrers married Hugh de Ferrers, (Tregaskes, Jean, St Mary the Virgin Churston Ferrers: Nine Hundred Years of History, church leaflet available 2017) to which family the manor descended. Another shield shows Ferrers (Argent, on a bend sable three horse-shoes or) impaling Matesford Argent, a chevron gules between three trefoils or, (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.493) for the marriage of William Ferrers (last in the male line) to Elizabeth Matesford, heiress of Daldich in the parish of Luppit (Pole, p.131; Tregaskes, Jean, Churston Story: 1088-1998, p.12) Another coat shown is: Argent, on a chevron azure three fishes sable, apparently Peniles (alias Pennells, Peverel) of nearby Lupton in the parish of Brixham, Devon, whose arms are given by Pole as: Argent, on a chevron azure three fishes or (Pole, p.496). At top left the arms of Yard-Buller, with an inescutcheon of a baronet, for the 3rd Baronet (later 1st Baron Churston); at right his arms impaling Newman, namely those of his second wife Caroline Newman (d.1866), 2nd daughter of Sir Robert Newman, 1st Baronet (1776-1848) of Mamhead in Devon: Sable, three demi-lions rampant argent langued gules^[1]