Butterleigh is a village and

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situated about three miles south east of Tiverton. The village includes a

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, village hall, award-winning blacksmith and is famous for its harvest home.

St Matthew's Church

The parish church of St Matthew has a 13th-century

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, and an

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predating King

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Monuments

In the church of St Matthew is a mural monument to Elizabeth Courtenay (d.1624), a daughter of Philip III Courtenay (1547-1611) of

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by his wife Joane Boyes (d.1586), daughter of John Boyes of Kent. Elizabeth married in 1600 to the Hollander Peter Muden, a doctor of medicine, of Butterleigh. Shortly before 1600 Muden had enlarged the parish church and later erected the existing mural monument to his wife which contains a female effigy between two children with verse.Polwhele, vol.2, p.256

References

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