Penzance, Church of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady
South aisle 1
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- Date of manufacture and insertion
- Number of lights
- 1
- Maker
- Pugin, Hardman and Powell of Birmingham
- Main subject
- The Immaculate Conception
- Subject type
- Narrative
- Notes
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- was the 175th anniversary of the founding of the church.
The Immaculate Conception.
- Centre: the Blessed Virgin Mary, surrounded by five putti. She has a halo of twelve stars and holds a lily, a symbol of purity, in her right hand. Beneath her feet is a snake with an apple in its mouth.
- Top left: the founders of the church in Penzance, Frs William Young and William Daly, standing in front of the church, shown with both north and south aisles.
- Top right: Pope Pius , who declared the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception in , with Cardinals. He is wearing the three-tiered papal tiara and holds a papal cross.
- Bottom right: the Blessed Virgin Mary appears to Bernadette Soubirous (St Bernadette of Lourdes), with Lourdes Cathedral in the background.
- Bottom left: celebration of Mass at the church in Penzance, before the altar. The Celebrant, in the centre, wears a chasuble. The Deacon, on his right, wears a dalmatic and the Subdeacon, on the Celebrant’s left, wears a tunicle.