Truro, Cathedral Church of St Mary
s11. South transept lancet 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
- 1
- Maker
- Clayton & Bell
- Main subject
- Council at Jerusalem : SS Cyprian, James and Athanasius : Council at Nicea
- Donor
- “Lady Rowe”, probably Dame Frances Ann Rowe, daughter of James Bate of Exeter, widow of Sir Joshua Rowe, CB, died
- Dedicatee
- Lt Col Charles Lygon Cocks of Treverbyn Vean, St Neot, formerly of the Coldstream Guards, chairman of the committee that selected the stone for the building of the cathedral, died .
- Notes
The central lancet below the south rose window.
4 Ecclesia and Synagoga, who symbolise the Christian and Jewish religions respectively. Ecclesia wears a crown and holds a cross-topped staff in her left hand and a chalice in her right hand, and looks confidently forward. Synagoga is blindfolded and drooping, and holds a broken lance in her right hand and tablets containing the Ten Commandments in her left hand.
CONCILIVM · HIEROSOLYMITANVM Concilium Hierosolymitanum (the Council of Jerusalem)
3. St James the Less is shown presiding in the centre, with St Paul to his left holding a text and accompanied by St Barnabas, whilst on his right is St Peter.
☩ S: CYPRIANVS ☩ S: IACOBVS · DOMINI · FRATER ☩ S: ATHANASIVS ☩ Sanctus Cyprianus, Sanctus Iacobus Domini frater, Sanctus Athanasius (St Cyprian, St James the brother of the Lord, St Athanasius)
2.
Flames emerge from the book that St Cyprian holds in his left hand,
and from the book on the floor beside his crozier, an allusion to his description of the flames of Hell.
St James holds a fuller’s club (the instrument of his martyrdom).
St Athanasius holds a book in which is written
Quicunque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus [est ut teneat catholicam fidem]
(Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary [that he hold the Catholick faith]) which is
the beginning of the Athanasian creed).
CONCILIVM · NICAENVM Concilium Nicaenum (The Council of Nicea)
1. Seated figures around a central lectern.