An Armorial Memorial in All Saints Church, Kirk Deighton

There are several memorials to different individuals on the walls of All Saints Church in the village of Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire, but only one of them has a coat of arms on it.

That sole armorial memorial is to the memory of Clement Victor Stillingfleet (1873-1966), Rector of Kirk Deighton 1914-1949) and his wife, Mabel Constance Palethorpe (1870-1963). They married November 22, 1899 in Edgbaston, St Bartholomew, Warwickshire (the marriage record indicates that she was a widow at that time), and the couple had three children: Geoffrey, Edward, and Mabel.

Rector Stillingfleet was the son of Rev. Henry James William Stillingfleet and his wife, Victorine Agassiz. (Victorine was born in Paris, and was a naturalized British subject.)

These arms are blazoned: Argent on a fess sable between three fleurs-de-lis gules three leopard's faces argent langued gules.

Oddly enough, the York family of Stillington bears the arms: Gules on a fess argent between three leopard's faces or three fleurs-de-lis sable, an interesting rearrangement of the Stillingfleet charges and colors. (It's just that sort of serendipitous finding that keeps me researching in books like Papworth's Dictionary of British Armorials and Burke's General Armory. Because you just never know when you might find exactly this sort of similarity of arms between two families with different but somewhat similar surnames.)