Luxulyan, St Ciricius and St Julitta
Tower west
Entries in grey are not obtained from documentary evidence, but are inferred from content, context, etc.
- Date of manufacture and insertion
- Number of lights
- 3
- Maker
- Unknown (fitted by Bell of Bristol)
- Main subject
- Fragments, possibly including material from (16th Century), assembled as a medley in the central light and as armorials on either side.
- Tracery subject
- Medley armorials
- Notes
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Some fragments of old date joined to form a west window.
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- mentions arms of Robert de Cardinham also, which originally were in (now like all other windows, cathedral glass with mauve horizontal tinted bands).
- Mattingly J, Swift MG, Pre-Dissolution stained glass in Cornwall—a gazetteer, Luxulyan, (originally published in Vidimus Vol 31, ).
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Photograph CVMA inventory no 006553.
Photograph copyright © Dr Chris Brooks.
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Tracery
a top.
c top.
3b, 3c.
3b. The eagle in the centre at the bottom may be the seal of Robert of Cardinan (or Cardinham) (Lysons, Daniel, Lysons, Samuel, Magna Britannia vol 3, p *, 1814, London, T Cadell and W Davies). The same seal appears in the tracery of Fowey, St Fimbarrus, .
The arms at bottom right may be Lacy, azure (another, gules) three shovellers’ heads erased argent (another, or). (). Edmund Lacy (or Lacey) was bishop of Exeter from to , but no specific connection with this church is known.
2a, 2b. The eagle at the bottom of 2b may be the seal of Robert of Cardinan, as in 3b, above.
2a.
2b, 2c.
2c.
1b, 1c.
1b.