Fowey, Ship Inn
Dining room
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
- Fouracre & Watson?
- Main subject
- Preparing to sail against the Spanish Armada.
- Tracery subject
- Arms of Duchy of Cornwall, Purcell, Fowey.
- Subject type
- Narrative
- Notes
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- Description of windows in Plymouth Guildhall, .
- Manufacturer from similarity to work by Fouracre in Looe Guildhall, particularly the two narrative windows Council Chamber north 2 and Council Chamber south 2, and Plymouth Guildhall (Naylor, G, Fouracre & Son Stained Glass Manufacturers of Plymouth, p 20 Figure 7, Old Plymouth Society, 2018).
- Insertion date: speculative, but may have been one of many memorials erected to celebrate the tercentenary of the Spanish Armada.
Ye Shippes of Fowey Haven preparing to welcome ye Armada.
The sign of Ye Shippe
Inn is shown near the top of the third light.
Top left: arms of Duchy of Cornwall: sable, fifteen bezants, five, four, three, two and one ().
Top centre: arms of Purcell, Baron of Loughmoe (of whom the Revd Handfield Noel Purcell, vicar of Fowey for 54 years from to , was a descendant): or, a saltire between four boars’ heads couped sable (). Each of the boars has a red tongue (langued gules).
Top right: emblem of Fowey from the seal of the town: On a shield a ship of three masts on the sea, her topsail furled ().
Left, the main scene of Looe Guildhall, Council Chamber north 2 and, on the right, the left and centre lights of this window, showing the stylistic similarities.