User:Vexald/Sandbox/Exeter Cathedral: Great West Window
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.
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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). |
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Walter Stapledon (died 1326), Bishop of Exeter 1307-1326.
Walter Stapledon was Bishop of Exeter from 1307 until he was killed in the London Uprising of 1326. He twice served as Lord High Treasurer of England and founded what was to become Exeter College, Oxford. His tomb is in Exeter Cathedral.
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. |
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King Edward the Confessor |
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Diocese of Exeter |
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Edytha of Kent |
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John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter |
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Myles Coverdale, Bishop of Exeter |
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Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury |
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Temple, including Frederick, Bishop of Exeter |
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Blundell School |
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Balliol College, Oxford |
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Royal arms of the United Kingdom |
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Archdiocese of Canterbury |
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Archdiocese of York |
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Rugby School |
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Frederick Temple, Bishop of Exeter |
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Frederick Temple, Bishop of London |
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Diocese of Manchester |
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