Kenwyn, Epiphany House Chapel
East
Entries in grey are not obtained from documentary evidence, but are inferred from content, context, etc.
- Date of manufacture and insertion
- Number of lights
- 3
- Maker
- Powell, James of Whitefriars
- Main subject
- Christ as the Intercessor between heaven and earth:
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- Censing angel
- Blessed Virgin Mary
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- Two angels and four cherubim in heaven
- Christ
- Communion chalice and fruits of the earth
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- Harp-playing angel
- St John the Evangelist
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- Tracery subject
- Two angels holding a scroll
- Donor
- Helpers and friends
- Dedicatee
- Charles William Stubbs, Bishop of Truro –, died
- Notes
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- Death of dedicatee,
- Maker Royal Cornwall Gazette p 5 (not in BNA). Window not yet inserted.
- Designed by Ernest Penwarden,
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. - In the masonry around the top of the window is written ΠΑΝΤΟΤΕ ΖΩΝ ΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΕΝΤΥΓΧΑΝΕΙΝ ΥΠΕΡ ΗΜΩΝ (He ever liveth to make intercession for us) which is adapted from (He ever liveth to make intercession for them).
A.M.D.G. · ET · IN · P.M. · CAROLI · WILLELMI · STVBBS · TRVRONENSIS · EPISCOPI
QVARTI · HANC · FENESTRAM · PONENDAM · CVRAVERVNT · ADIVTORES · ET · AMICI · Ad maiorem Dei gloriam et in piam memoriam Caroli Willelmi Stubbs Truronensis Episcopi quarti hanc fenestram ponendam curaverunt adiutores et amici
(For the greater glory of God and in loving memory of Charles William Stubbs, fourth bishop of Truro, helpers and friends have had this window erected in )
Whole window.
Angels in heaven holding a banner on which is written Angelus faciei eius salvavit eos (The angel of his presence saved them) ().
Left-hand angel with thurible
Christ, as the Intercessor between heaven and earth. He stands on a rainbow in front of a cross, crowned and blessing. On His alb are, from top to bottom, a cross with serpent, the sun, the Temptation in Eden and a seraph.
Right-hand angel with harp
Lower left. The Blessed Virgin Mary holding a lily.
Lower right. St John the Evangelist holding a book in which is written part of his first Epistle: Advocatum habemus apud Patrem Jesum Christum justum (We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous) ().
Lower centre. Communion chalice decorated with Agnus Dei surrounded by fruits of the earth (grapes, vine leaves, wheat).