St Michael Penkevil, St Michael
North transept 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
- 3
- Maker
- Willement, Thomas
- Main subject
- Christ and the Widow of Nain
- Tracery subject
- IHS : Four evangelists’ symbols and scrolls : two armorials in quatrefoils on extreme left and right.
- Donor
- Anne Frances, Countess Falmouth, daughter of Henry Bankes, MP, wife of Edward, 1st Earl of Falmouth and 4th Viscount Falmouth, mother of dedicatee, died .
- Dedicatee
- George Henry Boscawen, 2nd Earl of Falmouth and 5th Viscount Falmouth, died .
- Notes
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- Death of dedicatee, , .
- Originally inserted in .
- Maker’s mark and dated.
- Insertion, subject, donor, dedicatee .
The figures are all copied from the best old Italian masters.
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- Moved to during rebuilding in ?
- Donor, dedicatee, maker .
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The only Son of his Mother, and she was a Widow ().
The quotation from St Luke’s Gospel describes the widow of Nain, but it also applied to Countess Falmouth, the donor of the window, on the death of her only son, the 2nd Earl of Falmouth, the dedicatee of the window.
Jesus and the widow of Nain.
Tracery. At the top are the emblems of the four Evangelists. At the bottom left are the arms of Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth: ermine a rose gules barbed and seeded proper () impaling the arms of Bankes of Dorset (the family of the Countess Falmouth, the donor of the window), sable a cross engrailed ermine between four fleurs-de-lis or () and the Boscawen motto Patience passe science (Patience surpasses knowledge). Above the arms is the coronet of an earl, with five “pearls” and four strawberry leaves visible, referring to the donor’s husband, the 1st Earl of Falmouth. At the bottom right are the arms and motto of Boscawen, below a similar coronet referring to the dedicatee the 2nd Earl of Falmouth.