St Just-in-Penwith, St Just
South aisle 1
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
- Clayton & Bell
- Main subject
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a. Emblem of the Archangel Michael b. c. Star of India above - Tracery subject
- Canopy work
- Donor
- Mary, Lady Crosthwaite, eldest daughter of Stephen Harvey James (manager of Botallack Mine), widow of dedicatee
- Dedicatee
- Sir Robert Joseph Crosthwaite, KCSI Knight Commander of the Star of India , Indian Civil Service, third son of the Revd John Clarke Crosthwaite (rector of St Mary at Hill, London EC), died aged 76.
- Notes
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- Marriage of Robert Joseph Crosthwaite (widower) and Mary James, , .
- Death of dedicatee , .
- Truro Diocesan Faculty petition, , . Truro Diocesan Faculty apparently issued , although vicar’s afffirmation of the public display of the Petition is dated .
- Insertion, donor, dedicatee (brief mention at end of article on window in Taunton church), .
- Pair with South aisle 2, South aisle 3.
- Manufacturer from signed drawing in Faculty Petition.
- Image of whole window.
To the greater glory of God and in loving memory of Sir Robert Joseph Crosthwaite K.C.S.I. Knight Commander of the Star of India , who died on aged 76 years. This window is dedicated by his wife Mary daughter of Stephen Harvey James of this parish
In the middle of a are the attributed arms of the archangel Michael, silver a cross pommy gules (Dorling, EE. Heraldry of the Church, p 150, London, AR Mowbray & Co Ltd., ).
At the top of c is the Star of India, of which order the dedicatee was a Knight Commander. Below it are the arms of Crosthwaite, gules a lion rampant between six cross crosslets or () and the motto Finis coronat opus (the end crowns the work)
In the drawing included with the
Faculty papers and signed by Clayton & Bell, St Michael is shown dressed as a Roman
soldier. A letter dated
from The Revd H Holroyd Mills to the Revd Thomas Taylor, vicar of St Just, states that
The Advisory Committee approved the enclosed design, but considers that in a 15th Century
window St Michael would be best dressed in mediaeval costume and not as a Roman Soldier.
S Just Cornwall. S Chapel S Side.
Drawing of the window, signed by Clayton & Bell, included in the petition for the Faculty to erect the window.
From the collections at Kresen Kernow, reference .
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