The Oak Room, Old Cock Inn

The Oak Room at The Old Cock, Halifax is on the first floor. It is oak-panelled and has a stained-glass window with 20 lights – some of the glass is original.

Contributor Anne Kirker has kindly given me details of the individual panes of the window

• TOP ROW left to right:
  1. Freemason's arms in a circle

     Audi, Vide, Tace

     Hear, See, Be Silent

  2. Halifax arms: head of John the Baptist
  3. Loyal Georgeans: two clasped hands

     Corda Et Manus Juncta

     Heart & Hand Together

  4. Hungry & you gave me meat 2 figures
  5. A stranger, and you took me in 2 figures
  6. Naked, and ye clothed me 2 figures
  7. Sick, and ye visited me 2 figures
  8. Halifax Old Smoke Club: olive leaves & two crossed pipes in a circle.

     Satis Est Quod Sufficit

     What Suffices is Enough

  9. Savile Arms Owls BE FAST
  10. Halifax & Calder Vale Agricultural Association: farmyard with man, haystack, horse, cow, sheep, pigs

• BOTTOM ROW left to right,
  1. Grapes & vine leaves
  2. Cockerel
     • Above: small round quarry, with eagle bent over a swaddled child in its cradle. The Eagle & Child is the Crest of the Lathams & now of the Stanleys. There are 2 stories.

       One of their ancestors abandoned and exposed an illegitimate son in an eagle's nest, and the eagle nurtured and fed him. From this extraordinary circumstance, his father was induced to take him back again, and to adopt him as his heir

       A supposedly childless and elderly father arranged for the child to be placed in the eagle's nest and to be discovered by a faithful retainer, allowing him to adopt the child without having to acknowledge paternity

     • Below: small diamond quarry with WSI

  3. Ears of wheat
  4. Game bird hung, with eggs in a basket
  5. Fruit: pineapple, lemon, apple grapes etc
  6. Fish lobsters
  7. Vegetables: cabbage, leek, carrots
  8. Boars head in a trencher
  9. Webster arms: 5 swans

     Duris Non Frangor

     Not Broken by Hardship Not Disheartened by Difficulties

  10. Peacock

This & associated entries use material contributed by Anne Kirker

Page Ref: MMO547

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