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Copplestone (anciently Copelaston, Coplestone etc. [1]) is a village, former manor and civil parish in Mid Devon in the English county of Devon.It is not an ecclesiastical parish as it has no church of its own, which reflects its status as a relatively recent settlement which grew up around the ancient "Copleston Cross" (see below) that stands at the junction of the three ancient ...
(socha sv. Josefa) This statue was designed by Josef Max and sponsored by Josef Bergmann, a tradesman in Prague. It depicts St. Joseph leading a small Christ, and is situated on a pseudo-Gothic base. It replaced a statue with the same motif by Jan Brokoff, designed in 1706. This was damaged by cannon fire during the 1848 revolution and was replaced by the current statue in 1854. . Statue of St ...
Celia Fiennes in 1697 describes it as "a Cross, a mile off the town call'd High-Cross – it stands just in the middle of England – its all stone 12 stepps which runs round it, above that is the stone carv'd finely and there are 4 large Nitches about the middle, in each is the statue of some queen at length which encompasses it with other ...
The cross was then totally removed and its parts reused. Three of the statues still survive: two are currently in St Mary's Guildhall, while a statue of Henry VI is in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. Some of the stone from the demolished cross was rumoured to have been used to rebuild Spon Bridge over the River Sherbourne in Spon End. [6]
Bampfylde was the only son of John Bampfylde by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Francis Warre, 1st Baronet, and was educated at Blundell's School and Winchester.. In 1750, following the death of his father, he inherited Hestercombe House in Somerset (originally the property of his mother's family), [1] where he designed and laid out the gardens. [2]
Azure, on a cross argent between four eagles displayed or a cross formée sable: Rose Ash: Fitz Argent guttée de sang, a cross engrailed gules: Fitz-Ford, Tavistock: Flay [q] Ermine, on a pale azure three birds argent: Charlton, Payhembury: Floyer Sable, a chevron between three arrows points downward argent: Floyer Hayes: Ford
The statue stands in the spot formerly occupied by this Eleanor cross, the Charing Cross, commissioned 1291 and demolished 1647. The equestrian statue of Charles I at Charing Cross, London, England, is a work by the French sculptor Hubert Le Sueur, probably cast in 1633 during Charles’ lifetime.
Arms of Coplestone, lords of the manor of Copleston in Devon: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three leopard's faces azure. Frederick Charles Copleston SJ CBE FBA (10 April 1907 – 3 February 1994) was a British Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy, best known for his influential multi-volume A History of Philosophy (1946–75).