Richard Fortescue (politician)
Richard Fortescue of Filleigh, North Devon was an English Member of Parliament and prominent land-owner and member of the Devonshire gentry, ancestor to the Earls Fortescue.
Mural monument erected in 1638 in Weare Giffard Church, the top tier showing Hugh Fortescue (1544–1600), son of Richard Fortescue, and his wife Mary Chichester.
Monumental brass depicting Richard Fortescue, Filleigh Church
Image: Fortescue&Moreton Arms Simonsbath
Filleigh is a small village, civil parish and former manor in North Devon, on the southern edge of Exmoor, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of South Molton. The village centre's street was, until the 1980s opening of the North Devon Link Road, the main highway between the North Devon administrative centre of Barnstaple and South Molton, leading westwards to Taunton. Much of the village's land is contained within grade I listed park and garden, Castle Hill, which straddles both sides of the Link Road providing a glimpse of some of it.
St Paul's Church, Filleigh, viewed from south
Arms of Denzell: Sable, a mullet in chief and a crescent in base argent. These arms survive sculpted in stone on the monument to Sir Richard de Pomeroy (1442–1496), in Berry Pomeroy Church
Mural monument to Lucy Fortescue (died 1767), 2nd wife and widow of Hugh Fortescue (died 1719), father by his 1st wife Bridget Boscawen of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Baron Fortescue and 1st Earl Clinton (1696–1751), and by his 2nd wife, the subject of the monument, of Matthew Fortescue, 2nd Baron Fortescue (1719–1785), father of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue (1753–1841)
Castle Hill, Filleigh, south facade
