Colebrooke Devon
Looking east past one of two 17c parish chests to the north chapel built as a chantry by Philip Copleston and his brother Walter c 1460 in memory of their father John who died in 1458, and lived at Coplestone House in this parish, which was the family residence for several centuries.
They most probably were executors of their father’s will and did this at his posthumous request. In his will of 18th October 1858 John Coplestone had requested burial in St. Katherine’s aisle here next to his wife Elizabeth, who had died the previous year. The well-worn ledger stone can still be viewed in the aisle. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/wc5x79SM8Z
By the latter half of the 16c the chapel became the Coplestone family pew and for their comfort a fireplace (now boarded up) was installed, the original stone chimney still remains on the outer walls.
The most striking features are the beautiful screen and the ancient prie-dieu known as the Copleston desk carved in 1472 for the marriage of Philip Coplestone and Anne Bonville, an heiress from her maternal grandmother Leva Gorges , this marriage greatly boosting the Coplestone coffers, and which has the Copleston & Gorges coats of arms. The desk is now used at the entrance to the chancel by the vicar. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/o4gY3V44qo
Documentary references to the Copleston family go back as far as 1275, but there is ample evidence to show that the family was here long before. Three generations previously held the same lands under the name of St Vedest , before they too the name Copleston from the property they lived in where stands the ancient Copleston Cross mentioned in a Saxon charter of 974 AD
The Jacobean Communion Table, once the chancel altar, was made by Leonard Reeve at a cost of 19s in 1640.
- Church of St Andrew, Colebrooke Devon
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Colebrooke Devon
Looking east past one of two 17c parish chests to the north chapel built as a chantry by Philip Copleston and his brother Walter c 1460 in memory of their father John who died in 1458, and lived at Coplestone House in this parish, which was the family residence for several centuries.
They most probably were executors of their father’s will and did this at his posthumous request. In his will of 18th October 1858 John Coplestone had requested burial in St. Katherine’s aisle here next to his wife Elizabeth, who had died the previous year. The well-worn ledger stone can still be viewed in the aisle. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/wc5x79SM8Z
By the latter half of the 16c the chapel became the Coplestone family pew and for their comfort a fireplace (now boarded up) was installed, the original stone chimney still remains on the outer walls.
The most striking features are the beautiful screen and the ancient prie-dieu known as the Copleston desk carved in 1472 for the marriage of Philip Coplestone and Anne Bonville, an heiress from her maternal grandmother Leva Gorges , this marriage greatly boosting the Coplestone coffers, and which has the Copleston & Gorges coats of arms. The desk is now used at the entrance to the chancel by the vicar. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/o4gY3V44qo
Documentary references to the Copleston family go back as far as 1275, but there is ample evidence to show that the family was here long before. Three generations previously held the same lands under the name of St Vedest , before they too the name Copleston from the property they lived in where stands the ancient Copleston Cross mentioned in a Saxon charter of 974 AD
The Jacobean Communion Table, once the chancel altar, was made by Leonard Reeve at a cost of 19s in 1640.
- Church of St Andrew, Colebrooke Devon
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