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.
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 (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. |
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King Edward the Confessor |
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Diocese of Exeter |
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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. |
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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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