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
1927
Number of lights
3
Maker
Percy Bacon Ltd
Main subject
2a .
King Alfred
2b .
Joseph
(Old Testament prophet)
2c .
St Thomas
1a .
King Alfred vows to send alms to St Thomas in India.
1b .
Joseph interprets the dreams of the Pharaoh’s butler and baker
1c .
Thomas and the palace of King Gondophares
Tracery subject
A1 .
Cap badge of the Naga Hills Military Police (Burma)
A2 .
Angel in adoration
A3 .
Angel in adoration
A4 .
Badge of the 18th Infantry
Subject type
Figurative historical
Donors
Ada Mary Helmer Congdon,
second daughter of JS Snell of Pool Hall, Menheniot,
mother of the dedicatee,
died 12th June 1947 aged 69
Albert William Congdon, brother of the dedicatee
Dedicatee
Lt Joseph Clemens Congdon,
18th Infantry,
of Scawns, Menheniot,
died 28th April 1925
in riding accident at Nagajanka, Assam, aged 25
Notes
Baptism of dedicatee,
6th September 1899 ,
Cornwall OPC Baptisms .
Death of Joseph Congdon of Scawns, Menheniot, (father of dedicatee),
18th October 1912 aged 60,
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser October 24, 1912 p 3 (obituary).
Joseph Clemens Congdon appointed as Second Lieutenant to the Infantry Branch of the Indian
Army Reserve of Officers on 27th September 1918 ,
The Gazette of India ,
12th October 1918 ,
p 1633 ,
London Gazette ,
21st March 1919 ,
p 3764 .
Death of dedicatee,
Western Morning News May 28, 1925 p 5 .
Truro Diocesan Faculty petition
20th December 1926 ,
D/R/4/28 ,
Truro Diocesan Faculty
2nd February 1927 .
Manufacturer from
Some stained glass windows executed within the past twenty years
, p 8. London, The British Society of Master Glass Painters, 1930 .
Death of Ada Mary Helmer Congdon (donor),
Cornish Guardian June 19, 1947 p 6 (obituary),
Cornish Guardian June 19, 1947 p 8 (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 April 28th 1925
aged 25 years, this window was placed here by his Mother, Ada Mary, and his Brother, Albert William Congdon
Photograph copyright © Alan Spencer
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NHMP
A1 .
Cap badge of the Naga Hills Military Police (Burma)
Photograph copyright © Alan Spencer
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XVIII
Infantry Burma 1885 –89 .
A4 .
Badge of the 18th Infantry,
which served in the third Anglo-Burmese campaign between 1885 and 1889 .
Lt Congdon (died 1925 ), 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 1922
(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.
Photograph copyright © Alan Spencer
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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 AD 833
(British Library,
Cotton MS Domitian A VIII , 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 .
Photograph copyright © Alan Spencer
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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
D/R/4/28 .
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First page of a letter dated 14th December 1926
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
D/R/4/28 .
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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
D/R/4/28 .
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