Sir William Templer-Pole, Bt.

[O. Wrigley-P.-McKerr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pole%26TemplerArms1808ShuteChurch.JPG

I found the church emblazoned as an "antique temple" rather interesting.

[Jeremy Kudlick]

The blazon for the Templer arms doesn't match that particular rendition - it's missing two steeples emanating from the second tier - and I wish the uploader had included the blazons for the baronet's quarters rather than just the family names. But it is a good example of canting arms.

[Chas Charles-Dunne]

Does this help, Jeremy?

1808 commemorative stained glass window in Shute Church, Devon, south window of south transept, showing arms of Sir William Templer-Pole, 7th Baronet (1782-1847), son of 6th Baronet, impaling the arms of Templer, the family of his first cousin and first wife Sophia-Anne Templer (1788-1808), following whose death the window was made.

Arms: Baron: quarterly 1st and 4th: Azure semé of fleurs de lis or a lion rampant argent (Pole), 2nd & 3rd: Ermine, a millrind sable (Mills), over all an inescutcheon the Red Hand of Ulster; impaling femme: quarterly azure and gules, on a mount in base vert the perspective of an antique temple argent of three stories, each embattled; from the second battlement two steeples, and from the top, one, each ending in a cross sable on the pinnacle; in the first quarter an eagle displayed; in the second a stag trippant regardant or (Templer, granted 1765).

The canting motto of Pole is shown below: Pollet Virtus, from the Latin verb Polleo, to be strong, mighty,[11] thus: "Virtue is powerful"[12], but which may also be read as Poll et Virtus, "Pole and Virtue"

[Jeremy Kudlick]

Chas - thank you.