Menheniot, St Lalluwy
North aisle 4
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
- Percy Bacon Ltd
- Main subject
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2a. 2b. (Old Testament prophet) 2c. 1a. King Alfred vows to send alms to St Thomas in India. 1b. 1c. - Tracery subject
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A1. Cap badge of the Naga Hills Military Police (Burma) A2. A3. A4. Badge of the 18th Infantry - Subject type
- Figurative historical
- Donors
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- Ada Mary Helmer Congdon, second daughter of JS Snell of Pool Hall, Menheniot, mother of the dedicatee, died aged 69
- Albert William Congdon, brother of the dedicatee
- Dedicatee
- Lt Joseph Clemens Congdon, 18th Infantry, of Scawns, Menheniot, died in riding accident at Nagajanka, Assam, aged 25
- Notes
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- Baptism of dedicatee, , .
- Death of Joseph Congdon of Scawns, Menheniot, (father of dedicatee), aged 60, (obituary).
- Joseph Clemens Congdon appointed as Second Lieutenant to the Infantry Branch of the Indian Army Reserve of Officers on , The Gazette of India, , p 1633, London Gazette, , p 3764.
- Death of dedicatee, .
- Truro Diocesan Faculty petition , , Truro Diocesan Faculty .
- Manufacturer from .
- Death of Ada Mary Helmer Congdon (donor), (obituary), (notice).
- Cap badge of the Naga Hills Military Police of Burma.
- Badge of the 18th Infantry.
- We thank Alan Spencer for information on the window and dedicatee. Spencer, Alan. Stained Glass of Percy Bacon & Brothers, Menheniot p 1.
To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Joseph Clemens Congdon, Lieut 18th Gurkha Regt., who died at Nagajanka, Assam on aged 25 years, this window was placed here by his Mother, Ada Mary, and his Brother, Albert William Congdon
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A1. Cap badge of the Naga Hills Military Police (Burma)
Photograph copyright © Alan Spencer
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Infantry Burma –.
A4.
Badge of the 18th Infantry,
which served in the third Anglo-Burmese campaign between and .
Lt Congdon (died ), the dedicatee, was probably serving with the 18th Infantry before the regiment was reformed into the
4th Battalion 9th Jat Regiment in a reorganisation of
(Wikipedia).
The dedication inscription may therefore have confused the 18th Infantry with the Ghurka Regiment,
as no other references to the 18th Gurkha Regiment
have been found.
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2a. King Alfred, holding a harp in his right hand and a sword in his left.
Photograph copyright © Alan Spencer
1a. Alfred making his vow to send alms to St Thomas in India at the time he was besieging the Danish army which held London. This episode is described in an entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for (British Library, Cotton MS Domitian A , f 55v) and discussed by Dr Caitlin Green in King Alfred and India: an Anglo-Saxon embassy to southern India in the ninth century AD.
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2b. Joseph as ruler in Egypt.
Photograph copyright © Alan Spencer
1b. Joseph interpreting the dreams of the Pharaoh’s butler and baker.
Photograph copyright © Alan Spencer
2c. St Thomas holding a spear in his left hand and a flaming torch in his right, symbolic of Enlightenment.
Photograph copyright © Alan Spencer
1c. Thomas showing King Gondophares the hospitals, schools, etc., built by him in place of the palace for which he had received the money.
Photograph copyright © Alan Spencer
Tracing of the design for the window.
The original drawing is in the custody of Kresen Kernow, reference .
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First page of a letter dated from Percy Bacon, the maker of the window, to the Revd Canon Edmund Spry Leverton, the vicar of Menheniot, describing the proposed subjects for the window.
The original letter is in the custody of Kresen Kernow, reference .
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Second page of the letter from Percy Bacon, the maker of the window, to the Revd Canon Edmund Spry Leverton, the vicar of Menheniot, describing the proposed subjects for the window.
The original letter is in the custody of Kresen Kernow, reference .
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