1913 heraldic monumental brass with enamelled arms and crest of Rolle: <i>Or, on a fesse dancettée between three billets azure each charged with a lion rampant of the first three bezants</i>. Others in the group stamped at top "PARTRIDGE 1913". 
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<p>Made 1n 1913 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Hart_Partridge" class="extiw" title="w:May Hart Partridge">w:May Hart Partridge</a> (born c.1881 in Harborne, Staffordshire - died 1917), an art enameller who studied at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_School_of_Art" class="extiw" title="w:Birmingham School of Art">w:Birmingham School of Art</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> She was "the most notorious pupil of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Gaskin" class="extiw" title="w:Arthur Gaskin">w:Arthur Gaskin</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> Her works are mainly in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts" class="extiw" title="w:Arts and Crafts">w:Arts and Crafts</a> style. She later worked at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_County_Council" class="extiw" title="w:London County Council">w:London County Council</a> schools and at home.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GLA_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GLA-4">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> She was the wife of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_James_Partridge" class="extiw" title="w:Frederick James Partridge">w:Frederick James Partridge</a> (c.1877-1946) (known as "Fred Partridge", works signed "FJP"), born in Barnstaple, an English jeweller, silversmith and  teacher of jewellery making, active circa 1901-1930.<sup id="cite_ref-GLA_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GLA-4">[4]</a></sup> His works are in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Nouveau" class="extiw" title="w:Art Nouveau">w:Art Nouveau</a> style. He has been called the "British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Lalique" class="extiw" title="w:René Lalique">w:René Lalique</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup></p>
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<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QueenAnne%27sWalkPedigreeChart.svg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/QueenAnne%27sWalkPedigreeChart.svg/200px-QueenAnne%27sWalkPedigreeChart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="105" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/QueenAnne%27sWalkPedigreeChart.svg/300px-QueenAnne%27sWalkPedigreeChart.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/QueenAnne%27sWalkPedigreeChart.svg/400px-QueenAnne%27sWalkPedigreeChart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="659" data-file-height="347"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QueenAnne%27sWalkPedigreeChart.svg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Chart showing familial or marriage relationships between nine of the persons (highlighted in yellow) represented by their armorials sculpted in stone on the parapet of Queen Anne's Walk</div></div></div>
<p>Queen Anne's Walk (formerly The Mercantile Exchange) is a grade I listed building in the town of Barnstaple, North Devon, completed in 1713 as a meeting place for the town's merchants. It was promoted and financed by the thirteen members of the Corporation of Barnstaple whose armorials are sculpted in stone on and above the parapet, and the work was overseen by Robert Incledon (1676-1758), Mayor of Barnstaple in 1712-13. The armorial bearings on the structure are illustrated and described in Blaylock's 1985 survey. As the contemporary brass tablet affixed to the east parapet suggests, they represent the members of the Corporation of Barnstaple, <i>viri ipsi ornatissimi &amp; honorabiles</i>, "men themselves honourable and most illustrious", who financed the building work. Nine of them are members of a tightly-knit group closely related by blood or marriage, namely: Acland, Hooper, Basset, Davie, Clevland, Chichester, both Incledons and Lethbridge (see pedigree chart illustration). The arms shown on the entablature were repeated on twelve 1913 small escutcheons and crests in coloured enamels on small decorative brass plates, made by May Hart Partridge (c.1881-1917). These are now displayed in individual glazed wooden frames affixed to the walls of the staircase of the Barnstaple Guildhall, six on each side.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Person_represented">Person represented</span></h2>
In 1708 <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Rolle_(died_1710)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Rolle (died 1710) (page does not exist)">Robert Rolle</a> (c. 1677–1710) of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stevenstone&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Stevenstone (page does not exist)">Stevenstone</a>, near <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great_Torrington&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Great Torrington (page does not exist)">Great Torrington</a> in Devon,  donated to the Corporation of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barnstaple&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Barnstaple (page does not exist)">Barnstaple</a>, Devon, a large stone statue of Queen Anne, the victorious monarch of the recent <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blenheim" title="Battle of Blenheim">Battle of Blenheim</a> in 1704. He was a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tory&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Tory (page does not exist)">Tory</a> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Member_of_Parliament&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Member of Parliament (page does not exist)">MP</a> for <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Callington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Callington (UK Parliament constituency) (page does not exist)">Callington</a>  (twice in 1701)  (a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Rotten and pocket boroughs (page does not exist)">pocket borough</a> of the Rolle family) and for <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Devon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Devon (UK Parliament constituency) (page does not exist)">Devon</a> (1702–1710). Underneath the statue, possibly intended to be free-standing and not on top of this building, is its original base, now seated somewhat incongruously above the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_arms_of_England&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Royal arms of England (page does not exist)">Royal Arms</a>. On the base is an escutcheon showing a cartouche with the arms of Rolle (<i>Or, on a fesse dancetté between three billets azure each charged with a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lions_in_heraldry&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Lions in heraldry (page does not exist)">lion rampant</a> of the first three <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bezant&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Bezant (page does not exist)">bezants</a></i>), now much worn, above which is the Rolle crest: <i>A cubit arm erect vested or charged with a fess indented cotised azure in the hand a roll of parchment</i>.
May Hart Partridge (c.1881-1917)
<span class="int-own-work">Self-photographed</span>