Looe, Guildhall
North 5
Entries in grey are not obtained from documentary evidence, but are inferred from content, context, etc.
- Date of manufacture and insertion
- Number of lights
- 1
- Maker
- Fouracre & Watson
- Main subject
- Set in decorative square quarries:
- Upper. Crest of Childe.
- Centre. Roundel of de Taillefer.
- Lower. Arms of Childs.
- Subject type
- Figurative historical
- Donor
- Borlase Childs
- Notes
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- Contract to be awarded to Fouracre & Watson, ,
- , , (detailed descriptions of windows).
- Upper. Crest of Childs?
- Centre. Roundel of de Taillefer.
- Lower. Arms of Childs?
The Borlase window.
Crest of Childe, an eagle with wings expanded argent enveloped around the neck and body with a snake proper.
de Taillfier [sic]
Arms of Childs? impaling Wyndham at bottom of window. The Borlase family is descended from the French family of Taillefer of Angoulême. (Borlase, William Copeland, The Descent, Name and Arms of Borlase of Borlase in the County of Cornwall, p 78, , London, George Bell & Sons, ). Marriage of Borlase Childs, eldest son of J Childs of Liskeard, to Jane Florence Wyndham, eldest daughter of John Eveleigh Wyndham of Sock Dennis, Somerset . The arms of Childe The arms of Wyndham are azure a chevron between three lions’ heads erased or ().