South Tawton is a village, parish and former manor on the north edge of Dartmoor, Devon, England.
[2] In front of the church is a "Crosstree", a feature dating from the Tudor period.
[6] The manor of South Tawton was anciently a possession of the Beaumont family.
[10] A mural monument to Robert Burgoyne, dated 1651, survives in St Andrew's Church, South Tawton.
South Tawton features in Landscapes of England DVD Series 2, Ep 6. by W.G.
Cross Tree, South Tawton
Arms of Wykes of
North Wyke
and of Cocktree, both in the parish of South Tawton:
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Ermine, three battle-axes sable
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The similarity of these arms to those born by the prominent
Wrey family
later of
Tawstock Court
, North Devon, is suggested by Worthy (1896) to prove that they are "collateral kinsfolk of the Wykes".
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The Burgoyne Monument in St Andrew's Church South Tawton. This slate and stone tablet on the wall of the South Chapel is dated 1651 and is in memory of Robert Burgoyne, his wife and their family. Those who are commemorated include a child in a cradle and an infant in a shroud. The arms of Burgoyne are:
Azure, a talbot argent
(as shown on the monument to Thomas Chafe (d. 1648) in the church at
St Giles in the Wood
, Devon, who married a Burgoyne
