Members of the Group have been researching the coats of arms in the Church. The pillars carry the Malherbe and Ferrers on the capitals.
On the screen behind the pulpit are two small bosses, we now believe this to be of the arms of the Acland Family, who lived in Feniton Court.
Yes, you are right. The Acland coat of arms was a black and white chequerboard with a red stripe across the middle. The other shield shows the coat of arms halved with the Dyke family which married into the Aclands and left them lots of money on the condition that they called themselves Dyke Acland, hence halving the coat of arms.
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