Tintagel, St Materiana
Chancel east
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
- Tyrrell, Ann
- Main subject
- Ornamented glass
- Donor
- William Evan Price of Torrington, solicitor, husband of dedicatee
- Dedicatee
- Anne Elizabeth Price, née Palmer, second daughter of the Revd John Palmer, Prebendary of Lincoln, died /.
- Notes
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- Marriage of William E Price to Anne Elizabeth Palmer, , ,
- Death of dedicatee .
- Renovation, including the insertion of three new windows at expense of the lay proprietors, , .
- Restoration at expense of Mr Price of Torrington, the lay rector The Ecclesiologist, No three stone windows in the chancel shortly to be filled with stained glass. Describes church as St Symphorian, Tintagel, but within article explicitly mentions St Symphorian, Forrabury as well. June 1851, p 234
- Description of the church,
The glass in the east window looks like Mr. Willement’s, and is very good.
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- op. cit..
Adds that
The east window and two windows on the south side of the chancel were inserted eighteen years ago, and were filled with stained glass by Mr. W.E. Price, their lessee, in memory of his late wife.
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Reprints article in BNEJ 1860,
The tastefully ornamented windows were not only designed by the present vicar [
], but the subjects permanently burnt into the glass through his own artistic manipulation,—a rare feature in the history of glass-staining.
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Mentions chancel windows dated ,
which probably refer to date of dedicatee’s death.
- Colby, Frederic Thomas, Pedigrees of five Devonshire families, Colby, Coplestone, Reynolds, Palmer and Johnson,
1884, Exeter, William Pollard.
Additions and Corrections,
Three windows to her [Mrs Price’s] memory have been placed in the Chancel of Tintagel Parish Church by Mr. Price (lessee of the great tithes); the eastern window painted by Miss Ann Tyrrell, sister of the late Bishop of Newcastle in Australia.
- CG - “indifferent glass in the east window : damaged in a gale, but ever since retained”.