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George S. Thorpe, a former Rector of Lydford, wrote in his book about
the church:
The glass on the tower west window had a somewhat unfortunate
experience. It was designed by G. Fellowes Prynne as a memorial window for
the mother of the Rev. Morris Fuller, Rector of Lydford, to fill the east
window of St. Michael’s Church, Princetown, then in Lydford parish. But in
1901, when St. Michael’s Church was enlarged by the addition of a new
chancel and provided with a large new east window, the glass lights of
this memorial window were far too small to be re-used, and, all the other
windows being of a different shape, by a clause in the contract the glass
lights being not rebuilt into the enlarged church became the property of
the contractors. They were removed to the village of Lydford, and were
discovered by the Rector in 1902 packed away amongst every kind of lumber
in the loft of an open shed. The contractors kindly gave them to the
Rector to place in this tower window. |
