St Peter's Church is the parish church of the town of Barnstaple in North Devon, England. Parts of the church date to the 13th-century with much restoration during the Victorian era by George Gilbert
St Peter's Church, Barnstaple, east end
The pulpit
The Mayor's Pew with its heraldic beasts
The baptismal font
John Dodderidge
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John II Dodderidge of Bremridge in the parish of South Molton, Devon, was a lawyer who was elected MP for Barnstaple in 1646 and 1654, for Bristol in 1656 and for Devon also in 1656, and chose to sit
The title page of The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries (1658), which Dodderidge arranged to have published
Detail from 17th-century plasterwork overmantel in hall of Hudscott House, showing the arms of Lovering of Hudscott (Argent, on a fesse wavy azure a lion passant Or) impaling Dodderidge (Argent, two pales wavy azure between nine cross croslets gules) here shown apparently with tinctures transposed. They represent the marriage of John I Lovering (died 1675) to Dorcas Doddridge, sister and co-heiress of John Doddridge (1610–1659).