Truro, Cathedral Church of St Mary
n19. North transept lancet 5
Entries in grey are not obtained from documentary evidence, but are inferred from content, context, etc.
- Date of manufacture and insertion
- Number of lights
- 2
- Maker
- Clayton & Bell
- Main subject
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a. b. - Tracery subject
- The sun of righteousness
- Donor
- Friends of dedicatee
- Dedicatee
- Lady Marianne Protheroe Smith, only daughter of William Paul of Southleigh, Truro, widow of Sir Philip Protheroe Smith, died .
- Notes
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- Memorial to be raised.
If sufficient funds are provided the Cathedral memorial will take the form of three stained glass windows in the north transept gallery …
. . - Windows ordered (six ancestresses of Christ) .
- Donors, dedicatee, insertion, subjects, , , , . Dedicated on the Feast of the Epiphany, , the second anniversary of the dedicatee’s death. (brief mention).
- (). Donors, dedicatee, maker. Detailed description of subjects.
- Memorial to be raised.
Eva (Eve)
a. Eve, with two of her children, probably Cain and Abel, surrounded by briars and thorns. Eve’s husband was Adam. At the top of the light is an angel holding a scroll on which is written Semen mulieris (the seed of the woman).
Sara (Sarah)
b. Sarah, bringing the cakes to her angelic visitors among the foliage and acorns of the terebinth. Terebinth trees grew at Mamre, where the visitors appeared to her husband Abraham (). At the top of the light is an angel holding a scroll on which is written Spes gentium (the hope of the nations).
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Tracery. An angel holds a shield on which is shown the Sol iustitiae (Sun of Righteousness), illustrating the reference to Christ written on the scroll held by the angel at the top of n15 a.
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