Truro, St John the Evangelist
Chancel apse south
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
- Main subject
- Subject type
- Narrative
- Donor
- Elizabeth Andrews and Edward G Heard, children of dedicatee.
- Dedicatee
- Mrs Elizabeth Heard, printer and publisher of the West Briton newspaper, died aged 80.
- Notes
-
- Death of dedicatee, .
- , description of windows.
- - mentions two windows inserted after restoration.
- 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.
- .
- Elizabeth Heard was also a dedicatee of Truro Cathedral .