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
- 1873
- Date of insertion
- 1949
- 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) impaled with Grylls (William Miles and his second wife Louisa Anne Miles, née Grylls) b. Arms of Grylls impaled with Willyams of Carnanton (Revd Thomas Grylls and his wife Sarah Grylls, née Willyams) - Donor
- Probably Louisa Anne Miles, née Grylls daughter of 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 Ⅲ, p 166, London, M Arnold, . The engravings (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, ,
- 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 Revd Thomas Grylls and in memory of Sarah Grylls, viz., their daughter.
- Death of Cordelia Vivian Vicars, youngest daughter of Revd Thomas Grylls, wife of Revd John Vicars, on aged 46, , ,
- Death of William Miles, of Dix’s Field House, Exeter, on aged 81, , , , (funeral).
- 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, .
a. Arms of Vicars-Miles impaled with Grylls (William Miles and his wife Louisa Anne Miles, née Grylls). The arms of Vicars-Miles are gules a serpent nowed bendways or, within two bendlets argent, the whole between two horses’ heads erased of the second. The crest is on a wreath of the colours, a serpent nowed or, thereon a horse’s head erased gules (Fox-Davies, AC, Armorial Families; a Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour Vol 2, p 2006, , London, Hurst & Blackett, Ltd.). The motto is Ut miles obsta. The arms of Grylls of Helston are or three bendlets enhanced gules ( ). The same arms (Miles impaled with Grylls), crest and motto appear at the base of the Miles Clock Tower in Exeter. In William Miles presented a drinking fountain for horses to the city of Exeter, and in his widow, Louisa Anne Miles, incorporated the drinking fountain into the base of the clock tower which she erected to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and to perpetuate the memory of her husband.
b. Arms of Grylls impaled with Willyams of Carnanton (Revd Thomas Grylls and his wife Sarah Grylls, née Willyams). The crest of Grylls is a porcupine passant argent, and the motto is Vires agminis unus habet (One has the strength of a regiment). The arms of Willyams of Carnanton are argent a fess chequy gules and vert between three griffins’ heads erased of the third, each gorged with a ducal coronet or. ( ).