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, eldest son of Deeble Boger, 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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- Marriage of Walter Deeble Boger and Amelia Harriet Bosworth, , at Westerham, Kent. .
- 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 since 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
To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Amelia Harriet wife of Walter Deeble Boger of Wolsdon who died the 29th of June 1887 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 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 Misitque et decollavit Johannem (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.
The inscription, running across the bases of s13, s14 and s15.
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