Truro, St John the Evangelist
Chancel apse 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
- 2
- Maker
- Heaton, Butler & Bayne. Designed by JA Reeve (architect)
- Main subject
- Subject type
- Narrative
- Notes
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- (no date given, but probably 1883).
- , description of windows.
- The three windows in the apse, taken together, are an example of typology, in which an episode (type) in the Old Testament pre-figures an episode (antitype) in the New Testament. Thus Jonah’s emergence unscathed from the whale, shown in , and Elijah’s translation as a rejuvenated youth, shown in , are the Old Testament types, and the Resurrection, shown in , is the corresponding New Testament antitype.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world & this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith. John ().
The angel and the three women at the empty tomb.