Truro, Cathedral Church of St Mary
s18. South nave aisle 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
- St Anselm : John Duns Scotus and St Thomas Aquinas : Anselm remonstrating with King William
- Donor
- Sackville George Stopford-Sackville, MP for Northamponshire, husband of dedicatee.
- Dedicatee
- Mrs Edith Frances Stopford-Sackville, daughter of William Rashleigh of Menabilly, died .
- Notes
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- Death of dedicatee .
- Funeral of dedicatee .
- Window
will shortly be erected
(also mentions several other windows recently inserted). - Insertion, donor, dedicatee, . (contains details of subjects: predella shows Anselm remonstrating with William Rufus at Rockingham Castle, which adjoins the Northamptonshire estate of the donor), , , .
- Benediction of window, .
- Dedicatee of this window was a donor of Fowey, Tower west in memory of her father.
TO·THE·GLORY·OF·GOD·AND·IN·MEMORY·OF·EDITH·FRANCES·WIFE·OF·SACKVILLE·G·STOPFORD·SACKVILLE DAUGHTER·OF·WILLIAM·RASHLEIGH·OF·MENABILLY·WHO·DIED·
s18 2 upper. St Anselm, shown in bishop’s vestments.
DUNS·SCOTUS·ANSELM·THOMAS·AQUINAS
s18 2 lower. On the left is Duns Scotus, shown wearing a Franciscan habit, his left hand holding a book. On the right is St Thomas Aquinas, tonsured and clean-shaven, clothed in a Dominican habit with a sunburst, the symbol of a teacher of doctrine. He is depicted holding a book, probably his Summa Theologiae, with an inkhorn, a symbol of authorship, hanging from a finger of his left hand.
ANSELM·CONFRONTING·WILLIAM·RUFUS
s18 1. St Anselm remonstrates with William Rufus. Anselm, in bishop’s vestments but excluding a mitre, stands before King William in an attitude of confrontation. The crowned monarch is seated on his throne, a downward pointed sword held in his right hand.
s18 1. The inscription, at the bottom of the window.