Entries in grey
are not obtained from documentary evidence, but
are inferred from content, context, etc.
Date of manufacture and insertion
Number of lights
4
Maker
Not known
Main subject
Eight scenes from the life of Noah, from an original twelve.
2a.
Noah building the ark
2b.
The embarcation of the ark
2c.
Noah sends off a raven which does not return
2d.
The dove returns to Noah with an olive branch
1a.
Noah, his family and the animals leave the ark
1b.
Noah’s sacrifice
1c.
The drunkeness of Noah
1d.
Noah’s death and burial
Tracery subject
() -
God sits on a rainbow above the Universe, with angels in adoration
Notes
Gilbert, Davies. Some collections and translations respecting St. Neot and the former state of his church. Hedgeland, JP. A description, accompanied by sixteen coloured plates, of the splendid decorations recently made to the church of St. Neot, in Cornwall, p 40. , London, W Clowes
Grylls, Revd Henry.
Descriptive Sketch of the Windows of St. Neot Church, p 25. , Truro, Heard
(No X, the Noah window).
Axworthy, William A.
Historical Sketch of the Parish of St Neot
, p 39.
Paignton, Torbay Printing Works,
.
Axworthy acknowledges at the beginning that much of his description of the windows is taken from Grylls.
Details=RICJ 2000 : 28-9.
Mattingly J, Swift MG,
Pre-Dissolution stained glass in Cornwall—a gazetteer,
St Neot,
(originally published in
VidimusVol 31, ).
Where the inscription in the window is now illegible, the text given in Grylls
is used.