The eagle does not catch flies - Churston Ferrers Devon
Beneath the east window of the south aisle, surmounted by the arms of the Barons Churston, in bronze, is an alabaster panel, running along the whole length of the east wall, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/pm2tT3dD6b with the following inscription:—
"On the south side of this church in the appointed resting place of the family lie the mortal remains of,
Gyles Yelverton Yarde Buller second son of John 2nd Baron Churston and Barbara his wife, Born 10th December 1875, Died 9th September 1900.
(There are several spaces left for further inscriptions, and at the bottom of the panel are the words:—)
" On whose souls may Christ Jesus have mercy"
The heraldic achievement sculpted in bronze of John Yarde-Buller, 2nd Baron Churston (1846–1910) of Lupton House, Brixton Surrey, The shield shows the arms of Buller (Sable, on a cross argent quarter pierced of the field four eagles displayed of the first) quartering Yarde of Churston (Argent, a chevron gules between three water bougets sable) with a baronet's inescutcheon of the Red Hand of Ulster (the 2nd Baron was also the 4th Baronet). Above is a coronet of a baron, above which is the crest of Buller: A Saracen's head and shoulders couped affrontée proper. If this is blazoned alternatively as A Moor's head it possibly becomes a canting crest referring to the Buller's early seat of Morval in Cornwall.
Supporters: Dexter: An ostrich proper in the beak a horse-shoe or, probably the crest of the ancient Ferrers family of Churston-Ferrers (ancestors of Yarde and hence of Buller), whose arms were: Argent, on a bend sable three horse-shoes or, the horse-shoe being a canting reference to the Latin words faber ferrarius, iron-worker, blacksmith, hence farrier.
A sculpted figure of a bird's head holding in its beak a horseshoe appears on the "Yard Capital", c1500 (Tregaskes, Jean, Churston Story 1088-1998, 2nd edition, 1998, p.14 (church guidebook)), of the south-easternmost column of the nave - . Sinister: An eagle sable. Latin motto of Buller below: Aquila Non Capit Muscas ("The eagle does not catch flies"). (Heraldry per: Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.253)
Gyles was the 2nd of 3 children of John Yarde-Buller, 2nd Baron Churston (26 October 1846 – 19 April 1910) of Churston Hall
& Barbara only child of Admiral Sir Hastings Yelverton and Barbara, 20th Baroness Grey de Ruthyn.
His brother was Hon John Reginald Lopes Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron 1873 - 1924
His sister Hon Barbara Lois Yarde-Buller, born 5 January 1875, died unmarried on 31 October 1945
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yarde-Buller,_2._Baron_Churston
Picture with thanks - copyright CCL commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:St_Mary_the_Virgin%27...(interior)#/media/File:1901Arms_JohnYarde-Buller_2ndBaronChurston_ChurstonFerrersChurch_Devon.PNG
The eagle does not catch flies - Churston Ferrers Devon
Beneath the east window of the south aisle, surmounted by the arms of the Barons Churston, in bronze, is an alabaster panel, running along the whole length of the east wall, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/pm2tT3dD6b with the following inscription:—
"On the south side of this church in the appointed resting place of the family lie the mortal remains of,
Gyles Yelverton Yarde Buller second son of John 2nd Baron Churston and Barbara his wife, Born 10th December 1875, Died 9th September 1900.
(There are several spaces left for further inscriptions, and at the bottom of the panel are the words:—)
" On whose souls may Christ Jesus have mercy"
The heraldic achievement sculpted in bronze of John Yarde-Buller, 2nd Baron Churston (1846–1910) of Lupton House, Brixton Surrey, The shield shows the arms of Buller (Sable, on a cross argent quarter pierced of the field four eagles displayed of the first) quartering Yarde of Churston (Argent, a chevron gules between three water bougets sable) with a baronet's inescutcheon of the Red Hand of Ulster (the 2nd Baron was also the 4th Baronet). Above is a coronet of a baron, above which is the crest of Buller: A Saracen's head and shoulders couped affrontée proper. If this is blazoned alternatively as A Moor's head it possibly becomes a canting crest referring to the Buller's early seat of Morval in Cornwall.
Supporters: Dexter: An ostrich proper in the beak a horse-shoe or, probably the crest of the ancient Ferrers family of Churston-Ferrers (ancestors of Yarde and hence of Buller), whose arms were: Argent, on a bend sable three horse-shoes or, the horse-shoe being a canting reference to the Latin words faber ferrarius, iron-worker, blacksmith, hence farrier.
A sculpted figure of a bird's head holding in its beak a horseshoe appears on the "Yard Capital", c1500 (Tregaskes, Jean, Churston Story 1088-1998, 2nd edition, 1998, p.14 (church guidebook)), of the south-easternmost column of the nave - . Sinister: An eagle sable. Latin motto of Buller below: Aquila Non Capit Muscas ("The eagle does not catch flies"). (Heraldry per: Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.253)
Gyles was the 2nd of 3 children of John Yarde-Buller, 2nd Baron Churston (26 October 1846 – 19 April 1910) of Churston Hall
& Barbara only child of Admiral Sir Hastings Yelverton and Barbara, 20th Baroness Grey de Ruthyn.
His brother was Hon John Reginald Lopes Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron 1873 - 1924
His sister Hon Barbara Lois Yarde-Buller, born 5 January 1875, died unmarried on 31 October 1945
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yarde-Buller,_2._Baron_Churston
Picture with thanks - copyright CCL commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:St_Mary_the_Virgin%27...(interior)#/media/File:1901Arms_JohnYarde-Buller_2ndBaronChurston_ChurstonFerrersChurch_Devon.PNG