Sir George Wylde - Temple Church (London)
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Depicted CoA of Sir George Wylde, barrister and member of the Inner Temple, You can find on his tomb located in eastern inner wall of the southern 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 George Wylde, barrister and member of the Inner Temple, You can find on his tomb located in eastern inner wall of the southern aisle of Temple Church in London.
Simple Wylde' family CoA
Sir George Wylde (died 1679 in London) was English politician, barrister and member of the Inner Temple.
The CoA in the Temple Church is more complicated than original Wylde 's family basic coat of arms, which I found in heraldic sources (Argent, on a chief sable, three martlets argent). The presented composed CoA includes simple Wylde's family CoA in the 1st and 4th quarters.
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.