Tavistock, St Eustachius
Lady 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
- 5
- Maker
- Wailes, William
- Main subject
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2. 1a. 1b, 1c, 1d. 1e. - Tracery subject
- Angels holding scrolls and playing musical instruments
- Subject type
- Figurative historical
- Donor
- Bequest of Henry Terrell of Fairchilds, Watts’ Road, Tavistock, died
- Notes
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- Death of dedicatee, , , , , . Dedicatee left instructions in his will for the erection of a window in Tavistock Church.
- Insertion in progress,
(gives maker as Mr
Swailes
of Newcastle-on-Tyne), (gives detailed description of subjects. - Image of window.
To the honor & glory of God & for the adornment of His House. This window was dedicated by the late Henry Terrell, a native & life-long inhabitant of Tavistock. He died
Tracery. Angels holding scrolls on which is written Sanctus (Holy) and playing musical instruments.
2. The Ascension. In 2c Christ is shown ascending from the summit of Mount Olivet; his right hand is raised in benediction of the eleven apostlles who are grouped in various attitudes in the other four panels.
1b, 1c 1d. The Entombment. The dead body of Christ is being laid in the sepulchre by John the Evangelist, Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus. On the left are the sorrowing women.
1a,
1e. Angels hold scrolls
on which is written
It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption
()
and
It is sown as a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body
().