Arms (centre), crest (upper) and masonic emblem (lower)
of John Ford Gould of Barnstaple, the architect of the building.
The arms of Gould of Frome Bellett and Frampton, Glamorgan are per saltire or and azure a lion rampant counterchanged.
The crest (on the left) is an arm embowed, vested gules cuffed or, holding in the hand proper a banner paly of six azure and gold,
on a canton argent a cross of the first, the staff also gold.
The motto of Gould is Non nobis esti (Be it not unto us)
which has been rendered around the arms as Non nobis neti
.
(Burke, Bernard, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, p 415. , London, Harrison & Sons).
The arms of Ford of Chagford, Ashburton, Bagtor and Nutwell
are per fesse argent and sable in chief a greyhound courant, in base an owl
and the crest (on the right) is a demi greyhound rampant sable charged with
three acorns in bend between two bendlets or, between as many branches vert, fructed argent.
(Burke, Bernard, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, p 366. , London, Harrison & Sons).