File:St Mary's Church, Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire - vestry hatchment.jpg

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Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire): hatchment in the vestry, shield lozenge shaped, thus for funeral of a female/wife. Trevor impaling Jennens ?. Arms of Trevor / Mostyn / Pennant / Edwards of Lee Castle: Arms of Trevor (Tudor Trevor, a chieftan of the Marches of Wales): Party per bend sinister ermine and ermines, a lion rampant or. From: Longwittenham History Group[1]: In the late seventeenth century Richard Jennens of Long Wittenham owned, amongst other farms, the woody ground, pasture etc. known as Hagbourne Down Farm. A branch of the Jennens family came to Long Wittenham from Harwell in the early 1600s. They were a successful farming family owning or leasing land in many nearby parishes. Down Farm came via legacy and sale within the Jennens family to Elizabeth Jennens, daughter of .... Jennens of Shiplake, (The Historical Register,: Containing an Impartial Relation of All ..., Volume 4[2]) Oxon, and granddaughter of Richard. She had married Tudor Trevor, son of Sir John Trevor (c.1637-1717), Master of the Rolls. When she died in 1784 she left most of her property to John Hayward, her nagman (groom) and he took over her farming activities.

Arms of Jennens, per Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.539: Argent, a chevron gules between three griffin's heads erased .... These arms on the sinister/femme half of the hatchment may agree with that blazon, excepting the tinctures, but have in addition: On a chief or a lion passant guardant between two roses gules.
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current03:17, 4 March 2011Thumbnail for version as of 03:17, 4 March 2011640 × 480 (62 KB)GeographBot (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Heraldic display in the vestry I peeked a look behind the curtain of what I think is the vestry and noticed an heraldic display (Hatchments) on the wall}} |date=2009-11-08 |source=From [http://www.g

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