Sir Thomas Lake - Temple Church (London)
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Depicted CoA of Sir Thomas Lake, a Boston-born English-educated lawyer, You can find on his tomb located in eastern inner wall of the northern aisle of Temple Church in London.
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Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/05/2014
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Depicted CoA of Sir Thomas Lake, a Boston-born English-educated lawyer, You can find on his tomb located in eastern inner wall of the northern aisle of Temple Church in London.
Simple Lake' family CoA
Sir Thomas Lake was born on February 9, 1656 in Boston, Massachussets and died on May 22, 1711 in London. He married Elizabeth Story a daughter of John Story of Derbyshire, England. Thomas returned to England to live at Bishop’s Norton, Lincolnshire. He was a barrister and a member of the Middle Temple. Sir Edward Lake named Thomas as executor of his will after Thomas’ father and older brother, Stephen, died.
[source: mlake.net]
The CoA in the Temple Church is more complicated than Lake's family basic simple coat of arms, which I found in heraldic sources (Sable a bend between six crosses crosslet fitchee argent). The presented composed CoA includes simple Lake's family CoA in the left upper part and also CoA of his wife Elizabeth Story in the right part.
Temple Church is a magnificent Romanesque-Gothic built by the secretive Knights Templar, an order of crusading monks founded in the 12th century to protect pilgrims travelling to and from Jerusalem. The Temple Church has a distinctive design and is in two parts: the Romanesque Round (consecrated in 1185 and modelled after the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem) adjoins the Gothic Chancel (built in 1240), which is the heart of the modern church. Both parts were severely damaged by a bomb in 1941 and have been completely reconstructed. Its most obvious points of interest are the life-size stone effigies of nine 13th-century knights lying on the floor of the Round. Some of them are cross-legged but contrary to popular belief this doesn't necessarily mean they were crusaders. In recent years the church has become a must-see for readers of The Da Vinci Code because a key scene was set here..