| Butterleigh | |
|---|---|
.jpg) St Matthews Church in Butterleigh | |
  Butterleigh Location withinDevon | |
| Population | 110 (2021 UK Census) |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
| 50°51′48″N3°27′34″W / 50.863450°N 3.459320°W /50.863450; -3.459320 | |
Butterleigh is a village andcivil parish inMid Devon,England situated about three miles south east ofTiverton. The village includes apublic house,[1] village hall, award-winning blacksmith and is famous for its harvest home.
The parish church of St Matthew has a 13th-centurybaptismal font, and analms box predating KingCharles I.
In the church of St Matthew is a mural monument to Elizabeth Courtenay (d.1624), a daughter of Philip III Courtenay (1547-1611) ofMolland by his wife Joane Boyes (d.1586), daughter of John Boyes of Kent. Elizabeth married in 1600[2] to the Hollander Peter Muden, a doctor of medicine, of Butterleigh. Shortly before 1600 Muden had enlarged the parish church[3] and later erected the existing mural monument to his wife which contains a female effigy between two children with verse.[4]
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