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Description Monumental brass of Alyanora Pollard (d.1430), St Giles in the Wood parish church, Devon. Only the original lower half of the female figure has survived, the top half being an accurate modern replacement, with the Latin inscription below it:

Hic jacet Alyanora Pollard qui fuit uxor Joh(ann)is Pollard et filia Joh(ann)is Copleston qui obiit xxi die mensis Septembris Anno d(o)m(in)i Mill(ensi)mo CCCCXXX cuius animae propitietur Deus Amen.(http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukdevon/StGilesInsideMIs.htm) ("Here lies Eleanor / Alianore Pollard who was the wife of John Pollard and daughter of John Copleston who died on the 21st day of the month of September in the One thousandth four hundredth and thirtieth year of Our Lord of whose soul may God look upon with favour Amen".)

Date Brass 1430; photo Sept 2012
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