Truro, Cathedral Church of St Mary
CV1. Canons’ vestry
Entries in grey are not obtained from documentary evidence, but are inferred from content, context, etc.
- Date of manufacture and insertion
- Not known
- Number of lights
- 1
- Maker
- Not known
- Main subject
- Arms of Edward Benson as Bishop of Truro
- Dedicatee
- Bishop Benson
Eduardus White Benson, Episc[opus] Truron[ensis] (Edward White Benson, Bishop of Truro, 1877)
The arms of Edward Benson as Bishop of Truro: the arms of the Diocese of Truro (argent on a saltire gules a key in bend, wards upward, surmounted by a two-edged sword in bend sinister, hilt upwards or, in base a fleur-de-lis sable, the whole within a bordure of Cornwall, viz. sable, fifteen bezants, ) impaling those of Edward White Benson (argent a quatrefoil between two trefoils slipped in bend sable between double cotises gules, ) Above the arms is a bishop’s mitre with a chi-rho christogram ☧ (the first two letters of ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ, Christ) and the ΙΗΣ christogram (the first three letters of ΙΗΣΟΥΣ, Jesus) and above the mitre is the head of the crozier still used by the Bishop of Truro, and now known as the Benson crozier.