Possibly a replacement for one of the (four?) earlier windows in Cathedral glass with painted meditations
[sic, perhaps ‘medallions’?]
in the north aisle by Fouracre
Royal Cornwall Gazette p 7,
donor Mr A Coode
Royal Cornwall Gazette p 7Royal Cornwall Gazette p 6.
The arms of Martyn of St Dominick, Cornwall: argent two bars gules
(Burke, Bernard, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, p 665. , London, Harrison & Sons).
A1, A2.
Angels holding scrolls on which is written
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight
(Mark 1:3).
2a.
St Petroc, holding the silver bowl in which he floated across the sea.
2b.
St Austell.
2c.
St Martin is shown as bishop of Tours, wearing a mitre,
holding a crozier in his left hand and with his right hand held up in blessing. Beside him
stands a goose. According to legend,
Martin was reluctant to become bishop, so he hid in a pen filled with geese, but the noise made by the geese betrayed his location.
From this arose the tradition of eating goose on the eve of St Martin’s Day (11th November).