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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.

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File:Escutcheon of Athelstan (Great West Window).png King Athelstan
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 (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.

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