St Winnow, St Winnow
Nave north 2
Entries in grey are not obtained from documentary evidence, but are inferred from content, context, etc.
- Date of manufacture and insertion
- Number of lights
- 2
- Maker
- Kempe, CE
- Main subject
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a. b. - Tracery subject
- IHϲ symbol in quatrefoil
- Donor
- “Parishioners and friends”
- Dedicatee
- Elizabeth Robins Foster of Lanwithen, died aged 71.
- Notes
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- Meeting of subscribers to memorial fund; design of window from Kempe accepted. .
- Maker’s mark (wheatsheaf and tower).
- TDM 1912 : 119.
- Maker, insertion, donors, dedicatee, (brass plate not yet obtained), .
- Insertion, dedicatee
Dedication of a stained window in S. Winnow Church, in memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Foster, of Lanwithan …
- Truro Diocesan Faculty.
(dated some months after insertion of window!)
To insert a Stained Glass Memorial Window in memory of Elizabeth Robins Foster with a Brass Plate beneath, bearing the following inscription:—
To the Glory of God, and in loving memory of Elizabeth Robins Foster, who entered into rest .
This Window, the gift of the Parishioners and friends, was dedicated as a thank offering for the example of an unselfish life spent in the service of others.
- Kempe, 2000 : COR 15.2.
- Image of window
His servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face ()
To the Glory of God, and in loving memory of Elizabeth Robins Foster, who entered into rest .
This Window, the gift of the Parishioners and friends, was dedicated as a thank offering for the example of an unselfish life spent in the service of others.
a. St Elizabeth of Hungary giving water from a pitcher to a poor little ragged boy, who is holding a bowl to receive it. The choice of this saint is probably an allusion to the dedicatee’s first name.
b. St Faith with her left hand resting on a gridiron, or iron bed, on which she suffered martrydom. In her right hand she holds a martyr’s palm frond.
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a lower left border. The mark of the maker of the window: a tower on a wheatsheaf.