Truro, Cathedral Church of St Mary
s15. Baptistry vestibule 3
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. - Donor
- Walter Deeble Boger of Wolsdon, Antony, Torpoint, husband of dedicatee
- Dedicatee
- Amelia Harriet Boger, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Holmes Bosworth of Westerham, Kent, died aged 47
- Notes
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- Death of dedicatee, , , , .
- Intention to donate, .
- Donor, dedicatee, subject, insertion, . The three windows of the Baptistry vestibule, the other two being s13 and s14 , were all given at the same time by the same donor in memory of the same dedicatee.
- The Baptistry vestibule has been re-ordered as the Chapel of SS Samson and Boniface.
TO · THE · GLORY · OF · GOD · AND · IN · LOVING · MEMORY · OF · AMELIA · HARRIET · WIFE · OF · WALTER · DEEBLE · BOGER · OF · WOLSDON · WHO · DIED · THE · · AGED · 47
NOE (Noah)
3. Noah, with a dove on his left hand and holding a model of the Ark in his right hand.
NON · LICET · TIBI · HABERE · EAM (It is not lawful for thee to have her) ()
2. John the Baptist reproaches Herod Antipas, with Herodias standing behind them.
MISITQUE · ET · DECOLLAVIT · JOANNEM (And he sent, and beheaded John [in the prison]) ()
1. The kneeling figure of John the Baptist is beheaded in prison. The executioner stands behind him wielding the sword.