Wortham, Lifton

Wortham is an historic manor within the parish of Lifton in Devon, England.

The early sixteenth century manor house survives, today the property of the Landmark Trust.

A mural monument[3] survives in Lifton Church to John Dynham (d.1641)[4] of Wortham, consisting of an escutcheon showing the arms of Dynham of Wortham impaling Harris of Hayne (Sable, three crescents argent a bordure of the last)) with the crest of Dynham above: An arm couped or hand azure holding a lock of hair sable,[5] with an inscribed tablet beneath.

John Dynham (d.1641) was the last in the male line and married Margaret Harris (d.1650), a daughter of Arthur Harris (1561-1628)[6] of Hayne in the parish of Stowford and lord of the manor of Lifton, both in Devon, and of Kenegie in the parish of Gulval in Cornwall, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1603 and Captain of St Michael's Mount, Cornwall.

[7] Arthur Harris's grandfather John Harris (d.1551) of Hayne, a Serjeant-at-Law and Recorder of Exeter,[8] had purchased the manor of Lifton from the Nevile family, Earls of Northumberland.

Wortham manor house , viewed in 2006
Arms of Dynham of Wortham: Gules, four fusils in fess a bordure ermine . [ 1 ] These are the arms of Baron Dynham differenced by a bordure ermine