Image: GranvilleArms QueenAnne'sWalk Barnstaple Devon
Description: Arms of George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne of Bideford (1666-1735): Gules, three clarions or. Detail of sculpted escutcheon on parapet of Queen Anne's Walk, Barnstaple, Devon, completed 1713. He is identifiable by the baron's coronet above and by his motto, shown sculpted here: Deo, Patriae, Amicis[1] ("For God, my Country and Friends"), the motto of his uncle John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath having been: Futurum invisibile ("The future is unseen").[2] The arms are not those of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628–1701), or of his son Charles Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath (1661–1701). The latter's son William Granville, 3rd Earl of Bath (1692-1711) died aged only 19 two years before the building was completed in 1713.
Title: GranvilleArms QueenAnne'sWalk Barnstaple Devon
Credit: Self-photographed
Author: (Lobsterthermidor (talk) 16:17, 28 January 2015 (UTC))
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