Truro, Cathedral Church of St Mary
SMs2. St Mary’s aisle 1
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
- Warrington, William
- Main subject
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a. b. - Tracery subject
- Donor
- The Revd Preb William Woodis Harvey, rector of St Mary’s, Truro, –, prebendary of Exeter Cathedral, domestic chaplain to Rt Hon Viscount Falmouth, died aged 66
- Notes
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- Institution of donor to the Rectory of St Mary, Truro, , .
- Signed and dated.
- Maker, donor, insertion .
- The Ecclesiologist,
No April 1851, p 156.
During the last few years, eight windows of painted glass by Mr. Warrington, have been put up in this church, at three several times.
These were:1845 Chancel east, South aisle east. 1846 SMs3, 1847 SMs4, SMs5. 1850 SMs2, SMs6, SMs7. - Resignation of donor as Rector of Truro, , .
- The Revd EG Harvey, son of the Revd WW Harvey, appointed Rector of St Mary’s Truro, after the Right Revd Dr Trower, former bishop of Glasgow, declined the appointment, .
- Death of donor, .
- Exchange of Rectors between Truro (the Revd EG Harvey) and St Mullion (the Revd HB Bullock), .
- Polsue () conflates
SMs2,
SMs3 and
SMs4
and their inscriptions and so refers to
SMs5
as the
second window
in the south wall. - The Revd Clement Fox Harvey inducted into the living of St Mary’s, Truro, .
- Transfer by the Revd Clement Fox Harvey of the advowson of the patronage of St Mary’s, Truro, to the Bishop of Truro, , .
- The Revd Clement Fox Harvey inducted into the living of Probus, .
- Reinserted by Fouracre and Watson in the same location, which had become St Mary’s Aisle of Truro Cathedral. Minutes of Truro Cathedral Executive Committee, , .
Deposition and Entombment of the body of Christ.
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Tracery.
An angel holding a scroll on which is written
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord
().
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Upper part of the window. Scrolls on a background of acanthus.
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And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre ().
a.
The Deposition.
Christ’s body, with the crown of thorns
on his head, is taken down from the cross
by Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus. The above passage from
St Mark’s gospel continues
And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid,
so the woman kneeling in the foreground is probably one of these two.
b. The Entombment. Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus place Christ’s body in the sepulchre. The same woman, Mary, is at the right, perhaps kissing Christ’s hand.
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W. Warrington London
The mark of the window’s maker in the bottom right-hand corner of the right-hand light.
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William Woodis Harvey Prebendary
of Exeter and for twenty-one years
Rector of Truro: died .
Sarah, his wife: died .
Frances, his wife: died .
Their children rise up and call them blessed (adapted from )
Plaques immediately below each light. The Revd William Woodis Harvey donated the window in , so these plaques were added some time after the window was inserted. The passage from Proverbs suggests they might have been donated by one or more of his children. A son by his first wife, the Revd Edmund George Harvey, succeeded him as Rector of St Mary’s, Truro, from to . A son by his second wife, the Revd Clement Fox Harvey, was Rector from to .
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