Cornish stained glass

Notes on the church

1. ‘Iron’ mission church to St Neot, donated by Revd GE Hermon of Doublebois House, curate of St Neot, opened 3^rd February 1887: Royal Cornwall Gazette February 11, 1887 p 6, Royal Cornwall Gazette January 6, 1888 p 4.
2. Anniversary of the opening held on Sunday 28^th August 1887 and Monday Western Morning News September 2, 1887 p 6 “Anniversary” not consistent with opening in February 1887!
3. Descriptions of the stained glass: Western Morning News August 21, 1888 p 3 and Royal Cornwall Gazette August 23, 1888 p 3.
4. From an editorial on the insertion of the stained glass:

   Putting away all prejudice about superstition and all unworthy fears of priestcraft in the bad sense of the word, we believe clergy would do well to make their churches and services warm and bright with colour. Poor people love it. It lifts them out of unlovely surroundings. It helps them in reverence, and it seems to us that abuses are no more likely to creep in there than in the awful formality and deadness of many low and slow churches. Spirituality and beauty go hand in hand.

   Church in the West, 25^th August 1888.
5. Kelly’s Directory of Cornwall 1893 p 1209. St Agatha’s was built in 1887, not 1877.
6. Moved to St Cleer as reading room by 1902 Kelly’s Directory of Cornwall 1902 p 69.
7. Kelly’s Directory of Cornwall 1902 p 229.