Image: PoyntzCrest 1520 Gaunt'sChapel Bristol
Description: Canting crest of the Poyntz family of Iron Acton in Gloucestershire: A hand clenched,[1] from the French poigne, "fist".[2] Detail from sculpted spandrel above entrance door to the Poyntz Chantry Chapel ("Chapel of Jesus") in the Gaunt's Chapel in Bristol (today known as St Mark's Church, Bristol), built by Sir Robert Poyntz (died 1520), lord of the manor of Iron Acton in Gloucestershire, a supporter of the future King Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, and buried in the Gaunt's Chapel.
Title: PoyntzCrest 1520 Gaunt'sChapel Bristol
Credit: Self-photographed
Author: Lobsterthermidor (talk) 22:12, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
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