St Mabyn, St Mabena
s5. South aisle 3
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
- Not known
- Main subject
- Plain glass.
- Tracery subject
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B1. Medieval foliate fragment A1. A2. - Donor
- Capt FJ Hext of Tredethy, Revd George Hext, Mrs Horndon of Pencreber, children of Admiral and Mrs Barbara Hext.
- Dedicatee
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- Admiral William Hext, died ,
- Barbara Hext, died , wife of Adml William Hext,
- Loveday Hext, died , daughter of Adml and Mrs Hext,
- Barbara Hext, died , daughter of Adml and Mrs Hext,
- Notes
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(no date given, probably 1886).
Eight windows in S. aisle presented by Capt F.J. Hext, in memory of members of his family. East window in N. aisle presented by Messrs. Olver, of Trescowe, in memory of their parents.
- Insertion (one of eight windows placed in the south aisle at the same time by the same donor), donor .
- Donors, dedicatees .
- CintW 15/6/1889.
- Mattingly J, Swift MG, Pre-Dissolution stained glass in Cornwall—a gazetteer, St Mabyn, (originally published in Vidimus Vol 31, ).
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(no date given, probably 1886).
A1. The arms of Hext of Trenarren and Tredethy are or, a tower triple turreted between three battle-axes sable ().
A2. The arms of Read of Dunboyne are azure, a griffin segreant or (). This is an Irish family; the canton probably indicates a particular branch of it.
William Hext (later Admiral), one of the dedicatees of this window, married Barbara, daughter and co-heir of James Read, MD, of Tremeare, St Tudy, another dedicatee of the window, on , (Cornwall OPC database, ). They were the parents of the donors of the window.
Photograph CVMA inventory no 006556.
Photograph copyright © Dr Chris Brooks.
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Foliate fragment at the top of the tracery