S·Martin
To the Glory of God and in memory of those
Ministers of Christ and Stewards of
the Mysteries of God, who have in former years served these Islands
as Chaplain; this window is erected
St Martin is shown as bishop of Tours, wearing a mitre,
holding a crozier in his left hand and with his right hand held up in blessing. There is a goose
towards the bottom on the right-hand side. According to legend,
he was reluctant to become bishop, so he hid in a pen filled with geese, but the noise made by the geese betrayed his location.
From this arose the tradition of eating goose on the eve of St Martin’s Day (11th November).
The arms at the top are of the
Benedictine Abbey of SS Mary and Rumon, Tavistock;
Henry I gave the Isles of Scilly to Tavistock Abbey.
Burke, Bernard, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, p 998. , London, Harrison & Sons
gives the arms of Tavistock Abbey as vairé or and azure, on a chief of the first two mullets gules pierced
of the field. Woodward
(Woodward, John. A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry,
p 387.
Edinburgh and London, W. & A.K. Johnston, )
gives them as vairé or and azure, on a chief of the first two mullets (sometimes pierced) gules,
otherwise, vair, on a chief or, two pierced mullets gules.
The same arms appear in Antony, St James the Great,
North aisle 5
and in
Tavistock, St Eustachius,
Lady Chapel south 2.