Truro, Cathedral Church of St Mary
s21. South nave aisle 6
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
- Dean John Colet : Sir Thomas More and Erasmus : Dean Colet teaching at St Paul’s Cathedral School
- Donor
- Leonard Ferris
- Dedicatee
- Thomas Ferris of Truro, uncle of donor.
- Notes
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- One of a pair (with s20) of lancets given by the same donor at the same time.
- Insertion imminent (gives location as north aisle).
- TDK 1911 : 169.
THIS WINDOW·WAS·ERECTED·IN·MEMORY·OF·THOMAS·FERRIS·OF TRURO·BY·DIRECTION·OF·LEONARD·FERRIS·HIS·NEPHEW·
s21 2 upper. John Colet, Dean of St Paul’s and founder of St Paul’s Cathedral School in London, in alb and stole, his head covered by a plain cap. His hands are clasped together across the centre of his body with a book, untitled but with geometrical shapes on its front cover, resting in the crook of his right arm.
SIR·THOMAS·MORE. DEAN·COLET. ERASMUS
s21 2 lower. The figure seated to the left is Sir Thomas More, wearing Tudor clothing including a fur trimmed robe and flat cap, with the gold chain of office of Lord Chancellor of England resting upon his shoulders. His left hand holds a paper which may well be the Oath of Supremacy that he subsequently rejected. On the right is Erasmus, wearing the clothing of the Tudor period including flat cap and fur trimmed robe. His left hand holds a copy of Novum Instrumentum, his version of the New Testament.
COLET·AND·THE·CHILDREN·OF·ST:PAUL’S·SCHOOL
s21 1.
John Colet teaching the boys at St Paul’s
Cathedral School in London. In the foreground are eight boys kneeling and looking at Colet, dressed as above
except that the stole is replaced by a cape. The scene refers to the end of the preface to the Latin grammar that
he wrote for the school: And lift up your little white hands for me, which prayest for you to God …
There is a picture of the Child Jesus in the background. In the rear at the High Master’s desk is the celebrated scholar William Lily,
the first High Master of the school.