English: Mural monument to Christopher Lethbridge (d.1713) of Westaway in parish of Pilton, Devon. South aisle wall of Pilton Church, Devon. Arms of Lethbridge: Argent, over water proper a bridge of five arches embattled gules and over the centre arch a turret in chief an eagle displayed sable charged on the breast with a bezant (Debrett's Peerage, 1968, Lethbridge Baronets, p.497). The arms here show only 3 arches, no turret and no bezant. The arms above the inscription are of Robert Incledon (1676-1758) of Pilton House, (Argent, a chevron engrailed between three tuns sable fire issuing from the bung hole proper) impaling those of his first wife Mary Lethbridge (d.1709), a daughter of Christopher Lethbridge of Westaway. Below are shown impaled by Lethbridge the arms of his wife, a daughter of Philip Bowchier: Ermine, a cross chequy gules and or between four water bougets gules, which appears here as: Argent, a cross chequy gules and or between four water bougets gules each between four ermine spots. These are a differenced version of the arms of Bourchier, Earls of Bath, of nearby Tawstock Court: Argent, a cross engrailed gules between four water bougets sable. The Bourchier Earls of Bath (which name was spelled historically in various ways) died out in the male line in 1654 on the death of the 5th Earl. It is not known what relationship if any the Bowchiers of Westaway (see: Reed, Margaret A., Pilton, its Past and its People, Barnstaple, 1985, p.243) were to the Bourchiers of Tawstock. They were clearly not in the line of succession to the titles Earl of Bath (extinct post 1654), Baron FitzWarin and Baron Daubeney (post 1654 abeyant between daughters of 4th Earl, one line of which is today represented by the Wrey Baronets of Tawstock). Latin inscription:

Juxta hoc monumentum quod ipse in sui suorumque memoriam vivus vidensque extraxerat jacet Christopherus Lethbridge, Armiger, qui natus annos 59 mortem obiit Junii 28 Annoque Domini 1713. Huius reliquiis suas adjunxit Margareta uxor, Philippi Bowchier, Generosi, filia, maritum vidua decennii intervallo secuta, viz: die Nov(embris). 3tio (tertio) Anno Christi 1723. Pari amoris foedere conjunctos par(i) annorum terminus clausit. (Transcribed by Rev William Henry Morris Bagley, Vicar of Pilton in his book 'Some Account of Pilton Priory and Church' (1907 )[1])

Literally translated as:

"Next to this Monument, which he himself, alive and seeing, in his lifetime brought to light (extraho -traxi, tractum, lit: 'to pull out') in memory of himself and of his (i.e. family), lies Christopher Lethbridge, Esquire, who having been born for 59 years departed unto death on the 28th of June and in the year of Our Lord 1713. To the remains of him, his wife Margaret added her own, the daughter of Philip Bowchier, Gentleman, with an interval of a decade as a widow, followed her husband, that is to say on the third day of November in the year of Our Lord 1723. Having been united by an equal covenant of love, she closed her ending with an equal (number) of years".

(Translated as follows by Rev William Henry Morris Bagley, Vicar of Pilton in his book 'Some Account of Pilton Priory and Church' (1907 )[2]):

("Near this Monument, which he himself in his lifetime erected under his own supervision in memory of himself and his family, lies Christopher Lethbridge, Esquire, who died on the 28th June in the year of our Lord 1713, aged 59 years. Mingling her remains with his, Margaret, his wife, the daughter of Philip Bouchier (sic, actual spelling on monument is "Bowchier"), Gentleman, followed her husband after an interval of ten years which she passed in widowhood, namely on the 3rd of November, in the year of Christ 1723. United by an equal bond of love, an equal number of years closed their lives".)

In 1849 James Whyte of Pilton House sold his landholdings in Pilton. Lot 8 (of 33) was the Westaway estate. The sales particulars describe it as: "a comfortable residence seated upon a lawn, with excellent walled garden, yard, coach house and stabling and a plot of land in front of the house". A note specified "This lot is subject to the payment of 26 shillings a year for the repairs of the Leathbridge (sic) Monument in Pilton Church and the roof over the same and will be sold so subject". Sold by auctioneers Farebrother, Clark & Lye at the Golden Lion Inn, Barnstaple on Friday 12th October 1849[3]