page_title: Budockshed
section_title: Gorges monument, St Budeaux
hierarchical_section_title: Budockshed / History / Gorges / Gorges monument, St Budeaux
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing by Roscoe Gibbs of 1600 monument in St Budeaux Church, near Plymouth in Devon, to the Gorges family of Budockshed (alias Budshead, Budeokshead, Budokeside, etc) in the parish of St Budeaux. The arms display Gorges quartering Cole.
context_page_description: Budockshed is a historic estate in the parish of St Budeaux, near Plymouth in Devon, England.
context_section_description: In St Budeaux Church survives a beautiful monument to the Gorges family, a high altar tomb situated in the Budockshed Aisle, at the east end of the north aisle, with pillars at the angles, the cover-stone of slate finely carved, with a reredos of exquisite Elizabethan strapwork design. The slate slab and front and sides of the altar tomb displays coats of arms as follows: 
  1: Sable, three fusils in fess between three stags' faces argent; Crest: A moor's head affrontée proper (Budockshed); 2: Quarterly, 1 and 4: Lozengy or and azure, a chevron gules, a crescent for difference (Gorges); 2 and 3: Argent, a bull passant sable within a bordure of the second bezantée (Cole); 3: Gorges, with crest: A greyhound's head couped at the shoulders and collared with crescent for difference; 4: Gorges and Budockshed quarterly; 5: Budockshed, with crest. The original inscription, which was probably gilded on it, had disappeared, but the sculptured date, 1600, remains. The monument had become greatly dilapidated, but was restored in 1881, with the following inscription:
  "Roger Budockshead of Budockshead Esquire ob: 1576; Sir William Gorges Kn: ob: 1583; Dame Winifred Gorges, ob: 1599; Tristram Gorges of Budockshead Esq: ob: 1607; Mrs. Elizabeth Gorges ob: 1607; Restored 1881 chiefly at the expense of the Historical Society and Citizens of the state of Maine, U.S.A., in memory of Sir Ferdinando Gorges the first Proprietor and Governor of that Province. A.D. 1635, aided by some connections of the Gorges family in England".
caption: 1890 drawing of strapwork reredos of the Gorges monument in St Budeaux Church, with arms of Gorges quartering Cole
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