swuklink: The Royal Arms in Parish Churches

During Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth, Parliament replaced the monarch as supreme head of the Church of England and the State's Arms were required to be set in parish churches by order of Parliament. With the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, it again became compulsory that parish churches display the Royal Arms. _{KENT:TCOSCOL-AR:p.16}

HANOVERIAN
The royal arms of King George III were the same as those of his Hanoverian predecessors, George I and George II, since 1714.

Edward III claimed the French throne in 1340 and the Royal Arms have reflected this claim by being quartered Arms of France (three gold fleur-de-lys on a blue background) until 1801 when the anachronistic title of "King of France" was abandoned by English monarchs at the Peace of Amiens.

ENGLISH PARISH
ROYAL ARMS

DORSET
Ryme Intrinseca, St Hipplytus (Hanoverian)

SOMERSET
Hardington Bampfylde, St Mary (Charles I)

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Sometimes the royal arms were incorporated into the building as was the case above the east window at Old St Cuthbert's Chancel at Oborne in north-west Dorset which was built in 1533.

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