Coats of Arms
The coats of arms with the three chevrons are those of the Clare family, Earls of Gloucester, and those with the inserted ermine marks are of the Noel family, Earls of Gainsborough, both one time Lords of the Manor of Campden. The coronets above the arms indicate their status as Earls. The sword in the centre symbolizes an ancient battle supposedly fought in 689 ‘on the fair green below Campedene’. The small shield with a cross on the postis that of William Grevel, woolmerchant and benefactor of Campden, whose house of c.1380 still stands in the High Street and whose large brass of 1401 is in the St James’s church