page_title: Filleigh
section_title: Old Church
hierarchical_section_title: Filleigh / Church of St Paul / Old Church
caption_attribution_description: English: Two small monumental brasses of Richard Fortescue (d.1570) of Filleigh, north wall of nave, Filleigh Church, North Devon. Frames are Victorian, brasses are displaced from their unknown original locations within the church
context_page_description: Filleigh is a small village, civil parish and former manor in North Devon, on the southern edge of Exmoor, 3 1/2 miles west of South Molton. The village centre's street was, until the 1980s opening of the North Devon Link Road, the main highway between the North Devon administrative centre of Barnstaple and South Molton, leading westwards to Taunton. Much of the village's land is contained within grade I listed park and garden, Castle Hill, which straddles both sides of the Link Road providing a glimpse of some of it.
context_section_description: The old mediaeval church was demolished by Lord Clinton in about 1730, as being situated adjacent to the old manor house which was to be re-modelled into the Palladian mansion, it interfered with the ambitious related landscaping plans. The only surviving fabric from the old church comprises the two monumental brasses which formerly adorned the now lost tomb-monument of Richard Fortescue (died 1570), great-grandson of Sir Martin Fortescue. These brasses, in damaged and incomplete condition perhaps indicating their having been carelessly wrenched off the former monument, are now framed and affixed to the north wall of the nave of the new church.
caption: Two small monumental brasses formerly affixed to the now lost tomb-monument of Richard Fortescue (died 1570) of Filleigh, displaced from their original location in the pre-1732 old church. Now affixed in Victorian frames to north wall of nave of new post-1732 Church of St Paul, Filleigh. To the left the brass depicts Sir Bernard Drake (died 1586), who erected the now lost monument to his brother-in-law Richard Fortescue (died 1570) who is depicted in the brass on the right. Above is a marble mural monument listing members of the Fortescue family buried in the family vault below
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