Detail from 1878 stained glass window in Buckland Filleigh Church, Devon, showing heraldic achievement of Sir Faithful Fortescue
08/07/19 22:31
Detail from 1878 stained glass window in Buckland Filleigh Church, Devon, showing heraldic achievement of Sir Faithful Fortescue (1585–1666), a royalist commander during the English Civil War. Window erected in his memory jointly by his lineal descendants Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont (1815-1887), an Irish Whig politician and the historian of the Fortescue family, and Chichester Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford (1823-1898), as stated in stained glass inscription.
