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The present Great West Window of Exeter Cathedral was given its current glazing in 1950, after the previous window had been destroyed by enemy bombing in May 1942.

Image	Arms	Details
	File:Escutcheon of Athelstan (Great West Window).png	King Athelstan
	90px	Leofric (bef.1016-1072), Bishop of Exeter 1050-1072. Leofric became Bishop of Crediton and Cornwall in 1046, but in 1050, at his request, the diocesan seat for Devon was moved to Exeter. Blazon: The arms of the diocese of Exeter impaled with Argent, a lion rampant Gules crowned Or. Leofric lived before the advent of heraldry and so his arms are later attributions. The arms usually attributed to him are a mitre on a black cross patonce on a gold field (as can be seen on the Great East Window).
		Walter Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter
		King Edward the Confessor
		Diocese of Exeter
		Edytha of Kent
		John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter
		Myles Coverdale, Bishop of Exeter
		Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury
		Temple, including Frederick, Bishop of Exeter
		Blundell School
		Balliol College, Oxford
		Royal arms of the United Kingdom
		Archdiocese of Canterbury
[[		Archdiocese of York
		Rugby School
		Frederick Temple, Bishop of Exeter
		Frederick Temple, Bishop of London
		Diocese of Manchester

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+| style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[ Escutcheon of Leofric, Bishop of Exeter (ExCath Great West Window version).png|90px]]
 | style="vertical-align:top;" | '''Leofric''' (bef.1016-1072), '''Bishop of Exeter''' 1050-1072.
 <p>Leofric became Bishop of Crediton and Cornwall in 1046, but in 1050, at his request, the diocesan seat for Devon was moved to Exeter.