Ladock, St Ladoca
South aisle 4
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
- Hicks, Oriel (Phoenix Studio)
- Main subject
- Images of camellias (matching the hydrangeas in South aisle 3). Ladock church and valley, birds, animals and vegetation. Inscription from ‘I thank thee God that I have lived’ by Elizabeth Craven.
- Tracery subject
- Stylised clouds
- Donor
- Holborow family
- Dedicatee
- Geoffrey Jermyn Holborow, OBE Officer of the Order of the British Empire , died .
- Notes
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- Dedicated by Bishop Tim Thornton, Friday .
- Geoffrey Holborow’s widow, Lady Mary Holborow, is the dedicatee of the adjacent window, South aisle 3, by the same maker, inserted two years later.
- Article on the church website about the dedicatee and window by members of the Holborow family.
I Thank Thee, God, that I have lived
In this great world and known its many joys.
(from ‘I thank thee God that I have lived’ by Elizabeth Craven).
Detail from the bottom of the left-hand light: camellias; a reference to the Geoffrey Holborow’s love of gardening.
Detail from the top of the right-hand light: the tower of Ladock Church, a reference to Geoffrey Holborow’s support and fundraising for the church.
Detail from the bottom of the right-hand light: Geoffrey Holborow’s terrier, Polly, and St Ladoca’s Holy Well.
The mark of the maker, Oriel Hicks, in the bottom left-hand corner of the right-hand light.