Camelford, St Thomas of Canterbury
Chancel 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
- 3
- Maker
- Travers, Martin
- Main subject
- Crucifixion with below Blessed Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist, Mary Magdalene and St Thomas holding model of Canterbury Cathedral
- Donor
- a, c: friends of the church. b: family of the dedicatee
- Dedicatee
- b: Kathleen Beatrice Braund of The Bridge Garage, Camelford, daughter of Garrance Pethick Braund and Elsie Braund of Fore Street, Camelford, died aged 22
- Notes
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- Baptism of dedicatee at Lanteglos by Camelford, , .
- Death of dedicatee, (notice), (notice).
- Burial of dedicatee, , .
- Inserted at consecration of church. Donors, dedicatee, subjects, .
- Maker’s mark and dated.
- :-
this was his second attempt; his first was deemed inappropriate, and he was advised to ‘sink himself in apathy, disease, immorality and then cover himself with the Love of God.’
- Brooks, Alan; Cormac, Peter. The Lowndes & Drury Archive. The Journal of Stained Glass, Volume , , p 212, London. Glass House invoice, , £17.
Greater love hath no man than this ()
a John the Evangelist supports the Blessed Virgin Mary.
b. Christ on the cross, with Mary Magdalene at its base.
c. St Thomas à Becket, vested as Archbishop of Canterbury, holding a model of Canterbury Cathedral. At the bottom are the arms of Thomas à Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury, viz, the arms of the Archdiocese of Canterbury impaling Becket. The arms of the Archdiocese of Canterbury are azure an episcopal staff in pale or, ensigned with a cross pattée argent surmounted of a pall of the last charged with four crosses formée-fitchée sable edged and fringed, gold (). The arms of Beckett [sic] are argent three Cornish choughs sable beaked and legged gules (). A ‘beckit’ was another name for a Cornish chough (Humphery-Smith, Cecil R. Heraldry and the Martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket, The Heraldry Society).
Above the arms is the mark of the maker of the window, Martin Travers.