From the Royal Cornwall Gazette, Friday 1st September 1882, page 4.
Mithian.—During the past week some interesting and important improvements have been effected in the chancel of the parish church here, the east window having been filled with stained glass of great beauty by the well known artist, Mr Horwood, of Frome Selwood, and the walls of the sanctuary richly decorated by the same skilful hand. The whole of this work has been done at the expense of certain members of the family of the late Rev Alfred Lord (for thirty-three years vicar, and the first Incumbent, of Mithian) and of his second wife; and the parishioners generally, and, in particular, the present energetic vicar, the Rev J R McWilliams Bampfield, may be heartily congratulated on the result. The window being of four lights, with a very large opening in the plate-tracery above them, has been fitly treated, figures of the Four Evangelists having been placed in the former, while the latter has been appropriately devoted to a representation of our Lord’s Charge to St Peter, to whom the Church is dedicated. The colouring, though subdued in tone and most skilfully harmonized, is extremely rich, and the treatment of the principal figures, with their proper symbols, the borders, the canopies, and other more minute details of the work, leaves nothing to be desired. The sanctuary walls have been decorated, to the height of the sill of this window, as far as the altar rails on either side, with an effective diapered pattern, relieved by richly coloured borders. The portion immediately above the altar has been treated as a reredos; it is divided into three panels, the centre representing the Crucifixion at the moment referred to by St John, when “there stood by the cross of Jesus His Mother and the Disciple whom Jesus loved;” the side panels representing wheat and grapes, with the texts “I am the Bread of Life,” and “I am the True Vine.” The whole of the work has been carried out under the superintendence of the Rev F C Hingeston-Randolph, rector of Ringmore.
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