Morwenstow, St Morwenna and St John the Baptist
North aisle east
Entries in grey are not obtained from documentary evidence, but are inferred from content, context, etc.
- Date of manufacture and insertion
- Number of lights
- 4
- Maker
- Lavers, Barraud & Westlake
- Main subject
- David and Jonathan, surrounded by twelve saints, each associated with one of the dedicatee’s twelve children.
- Tracery subject
- Two angels with scrolls and possible (but unlikely) medieval sacred monogram
- Donor
- Mrs Martyn of Tonacombe, Morwenstow, (probably Maria Andrew Martyn, née Lawrence, wife of the Revd William Martyn), and family
- Dedicatees
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- The Revd William Waddon Martyn, rector of Lifton, Devon, for 37 years, died aged 67
- William Thomas Alexander Pattison of the Royal Western Yacht Club, cousin and friend of the Revd Martyn, died aged 70
- Notes
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- The individuals named in the window are the children of the Revd William Waddon Martyn (pedigree in which contains his arms, and those of three previous generations of his ancestors. Northmore Herle Pierce Lawrence was also the donor of St Clement, . ), and his wife Maria Andrew, second daughter of Northmore Herle Pierce Lawrence of Launceston who was the dedicatee of Launceston, St Mary Magdalene,
- Death of William Pattison, , .
A Painted Glass Window placed in N.E. Corner of the Church, the gift of Mrs. Martyn and family.
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- Donor, dedicatee, maker. Unveiled on Ascension Day. Description of subjects.
O ye spirits and souls of the righteous bless ye the Lord
(Canticle for Morning Prayer, Book of Common Prayer, ) andTheir angels do always behold the face of my Father
( ).
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The central lights show the story of David and Jonathan, and in small groups in the side-lights
are scenes from the lives of 12 Saints, whose names the members of the family bear.
In the upper part of the window is the cross of St Andrew and the monogram M.P. [looks like M only], and
two angels bearing on scrolls
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- CG : 17 links this window and
- Mattingly J, Swift MG, Pre-Dissolution stained glass in Cornwall—a gazetteer, Morwenstow, (originally published in Vidimus Vol 31, ).
- Image of whole window