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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
Leofric (bef.1016-1072), Bishop of Exeter 1050-1072.

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 (bef.1266-1326), Bishop of Exeter 1307-1326.

Blazon: The arms of the diocese of Exeter impaled with Argent, two bends wavy (or nebuly) Sable, on a border of the second eight pairs of crossed keys Or.

These arms, with bends nebuly, are used as the arms of Exeter College, Oxford.

Edward the Confessor (1003/05-1066), King of the English 1042-1066.

Blazon: Azure, a cross flory between five martlets Or.

Edward lived before the existence of heraldry. These arms were attributed to him probably in the fourteenth century.

Diocese of Exeter
Edytha of Kent

Blazon: Gules, a horse forcene Argent.

These are the arms of Kent. Edytha of Kent is identified here as the wife of Edward the Confessor, but in fact his wife was Edytha of Wessex.

John Grandisson (1292-1369), Bishop of Exeter 1327-1369.

Blazon: Paly of six argent and azure, on a bend gules a mitre between three eagles Or.

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Myles Coverdale (c.1488-1569), Bishop of Exeter 1551-1553

Blazon: Per chevron nebuly Or and Gules.

These are not the arms usually associated with Bishop Coverdale, which are Quarterly, per fess indented gules and or, a rose between two fleurs-de-lys in chief and a fleur-de-lys between two roses in base, all counterchanged.

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