Over
the arch leading to the vestry is this raised and painted plaster
coat of arms as used between 1714 and 1800. Of this E. E. Dorling
writes in his book "Leopards of England".
The accession
of the new king, George I, in 1714, caused another change to be made
to the Royal Arms. He was already Elector of Hanover, and bore his
hereditary arms of Brunswick, gules two leopards gold, impaling Luneberg,
gold, powered with hearts of gules, a lion azure, with a point in
the feet of the shield of the arms of Westphalia, gules a running
horse argent, and overall a scutcheon gules, the crown of Charlemagne
gold - as the symbol of the Archtreasurership of the Holy Roman Empire,
which office he held as Elector of Hanover.
