St Michael’s Mount, St Michael and All Angels
s3. Chancel south 2
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
- Jennings, J, 96 Clapham Rd, London?
- Main subject
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2a. Charity with a child on her lap 2b. Elizabeth with her son John the Baptist as a child 1a. Elizabeth teaches her son John the Baptist to read 1b. - Tracery subject
- Angel above Pelican in her piety
- Donor
- Probably the children of the dedicatee
- Dedicatee
- Probably Elizabeth Clementina, Lady St Aubyn, second daughter of Admiral Marquess Townshend, widow of 1st Baron St Levan, mother of John Townshend St Aubyn, 2nd Baron St Levan, died aged 76
- Notes
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- Photograph of dedicatee.
- Death of Elizabeth Clementina, Lady St Aubyn, , , ,
- Insertion from date of death of probable dedicatee
- Maker from probable maker’s mark below
call her
in inscription below right-hand light - Donors inferred from inscription
Her children arise up and call her blessed.
- Image of whole window.
The greatest of these is charity ().
Her children arise up and call her Blessed ().
A. In the tracery is an angel, depicted as a child, above a Pelican in her piety. The angel/child’s face and hair style are similar to those of John the Baptist as a child in 2b and 1a, and might be likenesses of the dedicatee’s son, John St Aubyn, 2nd Baron St Levan, as a child.
2a. The figure of Charity, with St Michael’s Mount in the background. This scene probably alludes to the charitable works for which the dedicatee was reknowned (with her pet dog beside her) and also to the classic depiction of the Blessed Virgin Mary and infant Jesus.
2b. Elizabeth with John the Baptist as a child.
1a. Elizabeth teaching John the Baptist to read.
1b. The Annunciation to the priest Zacharias, foretelling the birth of his son John the Baptist.
Photograph copyright © Arthur Bradley, Minster Glass.
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