Truro, Cathedral Church of St Mary
s2. South quire aisle 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
- 1
- Maker
- Clayton & Bell
- Main subject
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3. 2. 1. - Subject type
- Figurative historical
- Donors
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- Mrs Emily Gooch of 92 Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea, Middlesex, mother of dedicatee
- Sisters of dedicatee
- Dedicatee
- The Revd John Walker Maxwell-Lyte, domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Truro, died .
- Notes
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- Marriage of Watson Gooch, of Great Yarmouth, to Emily, widow of Henry William Maxwell Lyte, of Bradwell House, Great Yarmouth, , , , .
- Death of dedicatee, , .
- Inserted in time for consecration of Cathedral, .
- Will of dedicatee.
- At the time when the window was made, the Book of Revelation was thought to have been written by the same person (“St John the Divine”) as St John’s Gospel (“St John the Evangelist”), hence the conflation of the two here. This is now thought unlikely.
In loving remembrance of the Rev: John W: Maxwell Lyte M:A: who died at Lis Escop this window is erected by his mother and sisters.
St John the Divine.
3. St John the Divine. In his left hand he holds a book, probably a reference to St John’s gospel, and in his right a chalice from which a serpent is emerging.
Deiparam matrem accipit (He takes his mother, the Mother of God).
2. John leads the Blessed Virgin Mary away from the cross.
Ephesi senex docet (The old man teaches at Ephesus).
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