Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Bevil

Last Name:

Grenville

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1714 by his grandson George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdown (1666-1735).

Inscription:

According to: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/26150

Here lyes all that was mortall of the most noble &/truly valiant Sir Bevill Granville of Stowe in the/County of Cornwall, Earl of Corbile & Lord of/Thorigny & Granville in France & Normandy/Descended in a direct line from Robert Second/son of ye warlike Rollo Forst Duke of Normandy/who after having obtained diverse signall victoryes/over ye rebells in ye west was at length slain with/many wounds at the Battle of Lansdowne July ye 5th/1643. He was born ye 23 day of March 1595 and was/deposited with his noble and heroick ancesteros in this/Church ye 26th July 1643. He married the most/virtuous Lady Grace daughter of Sir George Smith/of ye County of Devon by whom he had many/sons. Emmenr for their loyalty and firm adherence/to ye Crown & Church. And severall daughters/remarkable examples of true piety/he was indeed an excellent person whose (...)/interest & reputation was ye foundation of what/had been done in Cornwall & his temper &/ affections so publick that no accident which/happened could make any impressions in him/And his example kept others from making any/thing ill or at least seeming to do so, In a word/a brighter courageous gentler disposition were/never marryd together to make ye most cheerful/& innocent conversation/VD: Earl of Clarendon's history of ye rebellion/to ye immortal memory of his (...) grandfather this/monument was erected by ye Right Hono. George Lee/Lansdowne Treasurer of ye household to Queen Anne/one of Her Majesty's most Hon Privy Council in ye/year of our Lord 1714.

From: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67238241/bevil-grenville
Underneath on a smaller tablet is the following inscription with verse by Martin Lluelyn (1616-1682), a fellow Royalist captain and a poet and physician, published in 1643:


"Thus slain thy valiant Ancestor did ly
When his one bark a navy did defy
When now encompas't round the victor stood
And bath'd his pinnace in his co'quering blood
Till all his purple current dry'd and spent
He fell and made the waves his monument
Where shall ye next fam'd Granvill's ashes stand
Thy grand syre fills the seas and thou ye land

Martin L. Lewellin. Vid. Oxford University Verses printed 1643"

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilkhampton

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

From: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/26150
White marble inscription tablet flanked by two pillars supporting an entablature. Whole is mounted on a dark coloured marble background with relics of battle in relief on it - guns, banners, drums, and swords are depicted to the left and right side of the inscription tablet, at the base are axes, a helmet, swords, and banners. Two angels stand at each end of the entablature flanking a smaller tablet with a coloured coat of arms surmounting it.

From: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67238241/bevil-grenville
The heraldic achievement above displays the arms of Grenville impaling Smith of Exeter: Sable, a fess cotised between three martlets or. Above left hangs his funeral helm and above right his funeral gauntlets