page_title: Manor of King's Nympton
section_title: Buller
hierarchical_section_title: Manor of King's Nympton / Descent of the manor / Buller
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Buller: Sable, on a cross argent quarter pierced of the field four eagles displayed of the first (Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p.279)
context_page_description: The Manor of King's Nympton was a manor largely co-terminous with the parish of King's Nympton in Devon, England.
context_section_description: James Buller (1717–1765) was  MP for East Looe 1741–1747 and for Cornwall 1748–1765. His first wife Elizabeth Gould (died 1742) was the heiress of the estate of Downes near Crediton in Devon, which became at some time the principal seat of the family. He married secondly in 1744 to Hon. Jane Bathurst (died 1794), second daughter of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, of Cirencester Park,  and sister of Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst (1714–1794), Lord Chancellor 1771–1778. It appears she did not wish to live in the house of her husband's first wife, or else had a liking for the new Palladian fashion in architecture, as James built for her a new house at King's Nympton. He demolished the previous mediaeval manor house at King's Nympton and built in its place between 1746–9 the fine Palladian mansion which was then known as "New Place", which survives today known as "King's Nympton Park". His architect was Francis Cartwright of Blandford in Dorset and the design was based on Marble Hill in Twickenham, one of the earliest Palladian houses in England built between 1724–9. In 1756 James Buller donated to the parish church a magnificent set of silver-gilt vessels, being a thanks-offering for the survival of himself, his children and over 80 parishioners after an inoculation against smallpox. The set comprises a chalice, paten, flagon and alms dish. The Bullers eventually withdrew to Downes in about 1839 and in 1842 sold the estate to James Tanner, who added the existing low Tuscan porch.
caption: Arms of Buller: Sable, on a cross argent quarter pierced of the field four eagles displayed of the first[37]
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