Cardinham, St Meubred
North aisle east
Entries in grey are not obtained from documentary evidence, but are inferred from content, context, etc.
- Date of manufacture
- Date of insertion
- Number of lights
- 2
- Maker
- Warrington, JP
- Main subject
- Principal ground of lace-work character with decorated intersections of colour.
- Tracery subject
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a. Arms of Miles (see notes) impaling Grylls (William Miles and his second wife Louisa Anne Miles, née Grylls) b. Arms of Grylls impaling Willyams of Carnanton (the Revd Thomas Grylls and his wife Sarah Grylls, née Willyams) - Donor
- Probably Louisa Anne Miles, née Grylls daughter of the Revd Thomas and Sarah Grylls
- Notes
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- Marriage of William Miles, of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards, to Dorothea [sic] Rose Drewe, only surviving child of John Rose Drewe, of the Grange, Devon, on , (by special licence, at the residence of Mrs Drewe in Dix’s Field, Exeter), ,
- Engraving ‘Lame leading the Blind’, engraved by Henry Beckwith after a painting by Charles Hancock, dedicated to William Miles, Esq, 2nd Regiment Life Guards, Library of the Fine Arts, Vol , London, M Arnold, . The engravings , p 166(1) and (2) in the British Museum have the crest and motto of Miles at the bottom, including the distinctive serpent nowed.
- Death of Dorothy Rose Miles, daughter of John Rose Drewe of the Grange, Broadhembury, first wife of William Miles, on aged 91, ,
- Portrait by Thomas George Webster of William Miles as army officer. It is claimed that this portrait was painted in , which is the year after William Miles died at the age of 81.
- Records of 1851 and 1861 censuses state William Miles was born in in Windsor, Berks.
- Marriage of William Miles, JP, formerly of the 2nd Life Guards, to Louisa Anne Grylls at Hardelot House, Weston-Super-Mare, on , , , , .
- Originally inserted in Chancel south
- Maker, original insertion from .
- Maker, original insertion, subject from .
- Probably the same donor as in memory of the Revd Thomas Grylls and in memory of Sarah Grylls, viz., their daughter.
- Death of Cordelia Vivian Vicars, youngest daughter of the Revd Thomas Grylls, wife of the Revd John Vicars, on aged 46, , ,
- Death of William Miles, of Dix’s Field House, Exeter, on aged 81, , , , (funeral). It is reported that his principle of action was not to let his left hand know what his right hand was doing, a reference to doing good unostentatiously ( ).
- Donation of steeple for St Leonard’s Church, Exeter, by Louisa Miles in memory of her husband. , , (describes memorial plaque including arms of donor in porch, and window in memory of Louisa Miles’s sister Cordelia Vivian Vicars). .
- Moved to North aisle east in and replaced with Chancel south (1949).
- Louisa Miles left the bulk of the Miles fortune to her nephew Miles Vicars, the son of her sister Cordelia, on condition that he changed his surname to Vicars-Miles and assumed the arms of the Miles family. Richard G Grylls, Grylls and Grills, the History of a Cornish Clan, Chapter 12 p 222, .
- Pedigree of one of the probable donors of the window: