English: 1913 heraldic monumental brass with enamelled arms and crest of Lethbridge: Argent, over water proper a bridge of five arches embattled gules (and over the centre arch a turret) in chief an eagle displayed sable (charged on the breast with a bezant).^[1] Motto: Spes Mea In Deo ("My hope is in God"). Crest: From a bridge embattled of one arch gules a demi-eagle displayed sable. Others in the group stamped at top "PARTRIDGE 1913".

Made 1n 1913 by w:May Hart Partridge (born c.1881 in Harborne, Staffordshire - died 1917), an art enameller who studied at the w:Birmingham School of Art.^[2] She was "the most notorious pupil of w:Arthur Gaskin".^[3] Her works are mainly in the w:Arts and Crafts style. She later worked at w:London County Council schools and at home.^[4][5][6] She was the wife of w:Frederick James Partridge (c.1877-1946) (known as "Fred Partridge", works signed "FJP"), born in Barnstaple, an English jeweller, silversmith and teacher of jewellery making, active circa 1901-1930.^[5] His works are in the w:Art Nouveau style. He has been called the "British w:René Lalique".^[7]

Queen Anne's Walk (formerly The Mercantile Exchange) is a grade I listed building in the town of Barnstaple, North Devon, completed in 1713 as a meeting place for the town's merchants. It was promoted and financed by the thirteen members of the Corporation of Barnstaple whose armorials are sculpted in stone on and above the parapet, and the work was overseen by Robert Incledon (1676-1758), Mayor of Barnstaple in 1712-13. The armorial bearings on the structure are illustrated and described in Blaylock's 1985 survey. As the contemporary brass tablet affixed to the east parapet suggests, they represent the members of the Corporation of Barnstaple, viri ipsi ornatissimi & honorabiles, "men themselves honourable and most illustrious", who financed the building work. Nine of them are members of a tightly-knit group closely related by blood or marriage, namely: Acland, Hooper, Basset, Davie, Clevland, Chichester, both Incledons and Lethbridge (see pedigree chart illustration). The arms shown on the entablature were repeated on twelve 1913 small escutcheons and crests in coloured enamels on small decorative brass plates, made by May Hart Partridge (c.1881-1917). These are now displayed in individual glazed wooden frames affixed to the walls of the staircase of the Barnstaple Guildhall, six on each side.

Arms of Christopher Lethbridge (d.1713) of Westaway in the parish of Pilton, adjacent to Barnataple, whose "big and sumptuous" mural monument survives in Pilton Church.^[8] He was the father-in-law of Robert Incledon, who supervised the building of Queen Anne's Walk in Barnstaple, completed 1713. Christopher's uncle was Christopher Lethbridge (died 1670) of Exeter in Devon, Mayor of Exeter in 1660, and one of the Worthies of Devon of the biographer John Prince, (1643–1723). His descendant Sir John Lethbridge, 1st Baronet (1746–1815) moved to Sandhill Park in Somerset. The arms of the Lethbridge baronets, which family survives today, show the additional bracketed charges. Westaway was sold in 1819 to James Whyte of Pilton House.^[9]