DescriptionBarrel vault, St Nicholas, Abbotsbury.JPG
English: Ornamental plaster barrel vault in the parish church of St Nicholas, Abbotsbury, Dorset, installed for Sir John Strangways in 1638.
The decoration is of angels, seraphim and the Strangways' family arms. Foreground: Strangways impaling Mordaunt (Argent, a chevron between three estoiles sable), for Sir Giles Strangways (1486-1546), of Melbury Sampford, Dorset and his wife Joan Mordaunt, a daughter of Sir John Mordaunt of Turvey, Bedfordshire. Background: Strangways impaling Manners, for Sir Henry Strangways (d.1544) (son of Sir Giles Strangways and Joan Mordaunt), died at the Siege of Boulogne, and his wife Margaret Manners, a daughter of George Manners, 12th Baron Ros by his wife Anne St. Leger.[1]
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