Cornish stained glass

Truro, Cathedral Church of St Mary

SM1. St Mary’s aisle east

Entries in grey are not obtained from documentary evidence, but are inferred from content, context, etc.

Date of manufacture and insertion

1911

Number of lights

5

Maker

Kempe, CE

Main subject

(1-2) Adoration of the Magi : (3) BVM and child : (4-5) Presentation at the temple. Earlier 19th century angels in tracery and decorative panels behind central reredos. Behind reredos at left - painted crucifixion (Flemish?) and at right - pre-19th cent

Donor

Miss Charlotte Carlyon, daughter of dedicatee

Dedicatee

Revd Thomas Carlyon, rector of St Mary, Truro, and vicar of Probus, died 1^st February 1826.

Notes

1. Death of dedicatee, Royal Cornwall Gazette February 4, 1826 p 2, Globe February 6, 1826 p 4.
2. Signed (wheatsheaf and tower).
3. Manufacturer, donor, dedicatee, insertion Royal Cornwall Gazette June 29, 1911 p 4, Lake’s Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser June 30, 1911 p 7, Royal Cornwall Gazette July 6, 1911 p 5.
4. Dedicated 15^th July 1911 Royal Cornwall Gazette July 20, 1911 p 5.
5. Truro Diocesan Kalendar 1912 p 156 (15^th July 1911). Heard & Sons, Truro (D/E/3/15, D/E/4/7, TCM/1257/7). New stained glass in East window, the gift of Miss C. Carlyon, in memory of her father, was dedicated by the Bishop of S. Germans.
6. TDM 1911 : 135.
7. FWBB 1948, 146 confirms tracery and below triptych as Warrington, inserted in 1845 as South aisle east.
8. Kempe, 2000, COR 18.1.