English: Arms of Templer of Stover, Lindridge (Devon) & Shapwick (Somerset), from 1794 stained glass image in Shute Church of arms of George Templer of Shapwick. Arms of Templer, as depicted 1794 stained glass image in Shute Church of arms of George Templer of Shapwick, which differ in several details from the official grant of 1765 registered in the
College of Arms:
On a mount in base vert the perspective of an antique temple argent of three stories, each embattled; from the second battlement two steeples, [
sic] and from the top, one, each ending in a cross sable [
sic] on the pinnacle; in the first quarter an eagle displayed; in the second a stag trippant regardant or. In no image of the Templer arms in Shute Church, Stover House or Teigngrace Church are two steeples shown from the second story. Often only one cross argent is shown from the top steeple. The depiction above shows three crosses or. The temple is seemingly a canting reference to the mediaeval round
Temple Church of the
Knights Templar in London (itself modelled on the Byzantine version of the
Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem) which was reconstructed after WWII bomb damage with two embattled stories but without a spire. Arms of
Templer of Lindridge per
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.2217:
Quarterly azure and gules, the perspective of an antique temple argent on the pinnacle and exterior battlements a cross or; in the first quarter an eagle displayed in the second quarter a stag trippant reguardant both of the last