Truro, Cathedral Church of St Mary
n32. North nave aisle 11
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
- Queen Victoria : Gen Charles Gordon and Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Queen Victoria receiving news of her accession.
- Donor
- Lady Rose Caroline Graves Sawle, mother of dedicatee
- Dedicatee
- Rose Dorothea Graves Sawle, daughter of Sir Charles Graves Sawle and Lady Graves Sawle, died .
- Notes
TO·THE·GLORY·OF·GOD·AND·IN·LOVING·MEMORY·OF·ROSE·DOROTHEA·GRAVES·SAWLE FROM·HER·MOTHER·ROSE·CAROLINE·GRAVES·SAWLE·
n32.
n32 2 upper. Queen Victoria, clothed in her coronation robes and a diadem-style crown, holding in her left hand the orb and in her right hand the sceptre.
GORDON·QUEEN·VICTORIA·TENNYSON
n32 2 lower. On the left is General Gordon, holding in his left hand the Bible and, in his right hand, a rattan cane (he always refused to carry a gun or a sword). On the right is Alfred, Lord Tennyson, with a laurel wreath on his head, a reference to the fact that he was Poet Laureate. His right hand rests on a book on which is written ‘In Memoriam’, said to be Queen Victoria’s favourite work of his.
QUEEN·VICTORIA·RECEIVING·THE·NEWS·OF·HER·ACCESSION
n32 1. In the foreground the young Queen, bareheaded and clothed in a nightdress and shawl, is holding out her right hand to the kneeling figure of Marquess Conyngham, the Lord Chamberlain. Behind Conyngham stands the bowing figure of Dr William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury from to .
The design is similar to that of a popular contemporary painting entitled Victoria Regina by Henry Tanworth Wells, which was reproduced in various different forms:
- A painting by Mary Louisa Gow.
- A print by Leighton Bros.
- An engraving by Emery Walker, used as the frontispiece of Benson, AC, Esher, Viscount, The Letters of Queen Victoria, . New York; Longmans, Green and Co.
- The left-hand predella in the Jubilee window in the north aisle of Great Malvern Priory, designed by Thomas William Camm and made by RW Winfield Ltd of Birmingham and London. The window was unveiled on and its maker, donor and design are reported in , , . The right-hand predella shows a scene from the service of thanksgiving held at Westminster Abbey on to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee (). The service was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward Benson, previously the first Bishop of Truro, who is almost certainly the figure shown on the left of this predella.