St Neot, St Anietus
North aisle 4
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
- Twelve scenes from the life of St Neot.
3a. Neot resigns his crown to his younger brother 3b. Neot takes the vows as a monk 3c. Neot rescues a doe from her hunter 3d. Neot is told by an angel to take only one fish from the well each day 2a. Neot, sick in bed, orders his servant to bring him a fish from the well 2b. Barius takes two fish from the well 2c. Barius brings the two fish to Neot. 2d. Barius throws the two fish back into the well 1a. A thief steals Neot’s oxen 1b. Stags offer themselves to be yoked in place of the oxen 1c. The thieves return the oxen 1d. Neot kneels to receive the Pope’s blessing - Donor
- Young men of the parish
- Notes
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- Gorham, George Cornelius. The History and Antiquities of Eynesbury and St. Neot’s, in Huntingdonshre, and of St. Neot’s in the County of Cornwall p 20, , London, Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones.
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- (No , St Neot’s window) from which most of the descriptions below are taken.
- Axworthy, William A. Historical Sketch of the Parish of St Neot , p 30. Paignton, Torbay Printing Works, . Axworthy acknowledges at the beginning that much of his description of the windows is taken from Grylls.
- RICJ 2000 : 46-8.
- Mattingly J, Swift MG, Pre-Dissolution stained glass in Cornwall—a gazetteer, St Neot, (originally published in Vidimus Vol 31, ).