NameRev Samuel Church CHURCH FORMERLY PHILLIPS , 10707
Birth1836
Notes for Rev Samuel Church CHURCH FORMERLY PHILLIPS
From Fox Davies: Armorial Families
CHURCH (R.L., 5 May 1869). Quarterly, i and 4,
argent, on a file gules, a chevron of the field, charged with three roses of the second, barbed and seeded proper, between as many greyhound's heads erased of the first (Church); 2 and 3, sable, a lion rampant between four mascles saltireways or (Philips). Mantling gules and argent. Crests— i. On a wreath of the colours, in front of a passion cross gules, a pelican in her piety argent, the wing charged with a rose also gules, barbed and seeded proper (Church); 2. on a wreath of the colours, a lion rampant regardant sable, sem6 of pheons and holding between the paws a mascle or (Philips). Motto — " Vulnera ecclesias liberorum vita."
Son of Rev. Samuel Phillips, Vicar of Llandewi with
Llangennith, Glamorganshire, m. Juliana Hicks, d. of Sir Gerard Noel, Bart.
Rev. Samuel Church Church (formerly Phillips), b.
1836 ; m. i860, Mary Anne Bridges Evans, only child of Rev. Benjamin Evans, Vicar of Llanstephan, Carmarthenshire; and has issue
(i) Samuel Bridges Noel Church, Gentleman, b. 1861 ;
2) John Church Church, Gentleman, b. 1862 ;
(3) Arthur Charles Gainsborough Church, Gentleman, b. 1866;
(4) Francis William Church, Gentleman, b. 1868 ;
(5) Cyril Gerard Church, Gentleman,
b. 1871 ; Mary, Juliana and Elizabeth. Res. — St. Mary's
Cottage, Musbury, Axminster, East Devon.
Inherited Ffrwdgrech, Brecon from his cousin Mrs Mary Church Pearce. Changed name to Church by letters Patent signed and sealed by the Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms dated 1869.
“There has been a house on this site since 1560 but the present Ffrwdgrech dates to the 1830s. The house was designed by architect Robert Lurger to take advantage of excellent views toward the Brecon Beacons. The real highlight of Ffrwdgrech is not the attractive house, however, but the well-preserved Victorian pleasure garden in which it stands. “