Truro, Cathedral Church of St Mary
Bs4. Baptistry 4
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. Henry Martyn disputing with Persian Doctors 1. Henry Martyn’s burial at Tokat - Donors
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- Frances Gidley Pedler, third daughter of William Pedler of Liskeard (surgeon and former Mayor of Liskeard), died aged 89
- Anne Pedler, youngest daughter of William Pedler, died aged 81
- Notes
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- Window ordered in . Minutes of the Executive Committee .
- The Church in the West, - inserted by the time of the consecration, cost £40.
- The donors of this window, together with a third sister who died earlier in had previously given a window in Liskeard, St Martin, in memory of their three siblings.
- There is an inscription on the west wall of the baptistry recording the donors of, inter alia, the four baptistry windows.
- Use of Pedler bequest, , , , (memorial tablet in preparation).
- Notice of unveiling of tablet, . Order of Service for unveiling on St Barnabas’ Day, Saturday , , p 21. Report of unveiling of memorial tablet in western wall of north transept. , .
- Subsequently moved to the east wall of the stairwell from the north quire aisle down to the crypt.
S: WINNOW
Bs4 3. St Winnow
MARTYN · DISPUTING · WITH · PERSIAN · DOCTORS
Bs4 2. Henry Martyn disputing with Persian Doctors.
MARTYN’S · BURIAL · AT · TOKAT
Bs4 1. Henry Martyn’s burial at Tokat
Memorial to Edward Hoblyn Pedler of Liskeard, recording the bequest of £15000 by his sister Anne Pedler to Truro Cathedral. The plaque is on the east side of the stairwell between the north quire aisle and the crypt.
To the glory of God
and in pious memory of Edward Hoblyn Pedler
of Liskeard in this county
Author of
The Anglo-Saxon Episcopate of Cornwall
and of various papers on the antiquities of Cornwall
A primary benefactor of the parochial schools of his
native town A faithful servant of God and of His Holy Church
Died aged 61 years
This tablet is erected
in accordance with the will of his last surviving sister
Anne Pedler who died aged 81 years
and who bequeathed the residue of her estate
exceeding fifteen thousand pounds towards
the endowment of a Residentiary Canonry
the Chancellor’s Divinity Schools
scholarships for the education of choristers
the extension of this Cathedral church
and the maintenance of Divine Service therein
for the continual remembrance of her brother
because he had done good in Israel both toward
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God and toward his house
The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance (based on )
Arms and crest at the upper left of the memorial. The arms of Gidley are or, a castle sable a bordure of the second bezantée and the crest is an eagle issuant or, the wings sable bezantée (), which one or more of the Pedler siblings had presumably inherited the right to use through their paternal grandmother, Hannah Pedler, née Gidley. The same arms appear at the bottom left-hand corner of Liskeard, St Martin, .