Carbis Bay, St Anta and All Saints
Porch west
Entries in grey are not obtained from documentary evidence, but are inferred from content, context, etc.
- Date of manufacture and insertion
- Not known
- Number of lights
- 3
- Maker
- Fulleylove, Joan
- Main subject
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a. Pilgrim travelling towards Heavenly Jerusalem, and praying at altar b. Nimbed female figure holding heart, with sun, moon and stars in background c. Soldier in chain mail with sword, lance and shield praying at roadside calvary leading to Heavenly Jerusalem - Donor
- Margaret (Marjorie) Keturah Fulleylove Thornley, sister of Joan Fulleylove (maker of the window)
- Dedicatees
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- The Revd Alfred Thornley, naturalist and retired clergyman, vicar of South Leverton, Nottinghamshire, –, Professor of Economic Entomology and chaplain, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, died aged 91
- Margaret (Marjorie) Keturah Fulleylove Thornley, died
- Notes
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- Alfred Thornley, son of John Thornley of Preston, Lancs, matriculated Merton College, Oxford, , Alumni Oxonienses, Vol , p 1414, .
- Marriage of the Revd Alfred Thornley and Rose Matilda Lethbridge (first wife), .
- Death of Rose Matilda Thornley between April and June 1921 inclusive (GRO, not confirmed to be wife of Alfred Thornley).
- Concert given at St Ives by Miss Barbara Thornley, ARCM, and Miss Marjorie Fulleylove Hamel among others .
- Marriage of the Revd Alfred Thornley and Marjorie Keturah Fulleylove Hamel at the parish church, St Ives, , , .
- Joan Fulleylove died (Find A Grave), a few days before the Revd Thornley.
- Death of the Revd Alfred Thornley, , , , .
- In clause 6 of Margaret Thornley’s will, proved in the District Probate Registry at Lewes on
(UK Probate Search),
she states
I give free of estate and other duties to the Incumbent and Churchwardens or other the [sic] Trustees for the time being of the Church of St. Anta and All Saints at Carbis Bay aforesaid my three Stained Glass Windows at
The windows were possibly first inserted in the south wall but then moved to the porch when that was built later.St. Anael’s
[her home in Carbis Bay] together with the sum of One hundred pounds for the purpose of fitting them into a window on the South side of the said Church and for the supply of a modest tablet to the memory of Alfred and Marjorie Thornley with mention of Joan Fulleylove as designer and craftswoman of the glass … . - Maker’s mark (“artist and maker”).
- Photograph of Margaret (Marjorie) Thornley. The date in the hand-written caption below the photo, , is more likely to have been her date of birth, rather than the date on which the photo was taken. Her birth was registered with the GRO in the first quarter of , which is consistent with this.
- Margaret Thornley called herself a
Pilgrim of St Michael
(Devon Dowsers) to which the subjects in the window may refer. - Short biography (includes photo) of the Revd Alfred Thornley, Nottinghamshire History, taken from Pike, WT (ed). Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire at the Opening of the Twentieth Century; [and] Contemporary Biographies, .
The windows in this porch are in memory of Alfred and Marjorie Thornley.
The designer and craftswoman of the glass being Joan Fulleylove.
(Inscription on a small plaque beside the window)
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I saw a pilgrim gay with loss,
Watching his star before his cross:
And one who had not travell’d far
Watching his cross before his star.
(Unknown)
a. A pilgrim with arms outstretched looks towards a star and the Heavenly City. At the bottom a woman kneels in prayer before a small altar in her bedroom.
c.
A soldier in chain mail, with his sword, lance and shield on
the ground beside him, kneels before a roadside calvary.
This figure might be an allusion to the Pilgrim of St Michael,
as Marjorie Thornley referred to herself.
Above him is a star and, beyond, the Heavenly City.
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Life of my life I shall ever strive
To keep my Love in flower
Knowing Thou hast Thy seat
In the inmost shrine of my heart
(from Life of My Life by Rabindranath Tagore)
b. A nimbed woman kneels on grass, looking upwards and holding a heart in her outstretched hands. Behind her are the sun, moon and stars.
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Plaque beside the window. This may well be the modest tablet
for which Marjorie Thornley made provision in her will.
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