page_title: Newnham (Old)
section_title: Strode
hierarchical_section_title: Newnham (Old) / Descent of estate / Strode
caption_attribution_description: Arms of Strode: Argent, a chevron between three conies courant sable. Cony traced from photograph of an escutcheon on the mural monument of Sir William Strode (d.1637) of Newnham, north wall of north aisle, St Mary's Church, Plympton
context_page_description: Newnham in the parish of Plympton St Mary in Devon is a historic estate long held by the Devonshire gentry family of Strode. The ancient mansion house is situated 1 mile north-east of St Mary's Church, beside the Smallhanger Brook, a tributary of the Tory Brook, itself flowing into the River Plym. The house was abandoned by the Strode family in about 1700 when they built a new mansion on the site of Loughtor Manor House, about 1/3 mile to the north-east of Old Newnham.
  Monuments to the Strode family survive in St Mary's Church, Plympton, including the canopied stone effigy of Richard Strode, showing a recumbent knight clad in armour. The mural monument of William II Strode and his family shows him kneeling with his two wives on either side and ten children below. The kneeling effigy mural monument to his daughter Ursula Strode, the wife of Sir John III Chichester of Hall, North Devon, survives in Bishop's Tawton Church. A notable member of this family and William II Strode's second son was the parliamentarian Sir William Strode, one of the Five Members whom King Charles I attempted to arrest in the House of Commons in 1642.
context_section_description: The de Strode family originated at the estate 
  of Strode in the parish of Ermington in Devon, from which they took their surname. Today's Strode Farmhouse incorporates traces of the ancient former mansion house of the Strodes.
caption: Arms of Strode: Argent, a chevron between three conies courant sable. Detail from mural monument to Sir William IV Strode (1562–1637) in St Mary's Church, Plympton
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