Stained glass maker Thomas Denny trained at the Edinburgh College of Art and has had many commissions both as painter and as a designer of stained glass. He now lives in Gloucestershire and has work in Gloucester Cathedral, Hereford Cathedral, and St. Margaret’s Church, Millington in East Yorkshire amongst others. The windows here are in St. Catherine & St. John Chapel at Tewkesbury Abbey (2002).
 
 
 

 
 
In 1834 the London Wine merchant James Powell (1774-1840) bought the small Whitefriars glassworks just off Fleet Street as a business for his sons. Originally unfamiliar with glass production the company experiemented with different techniques and were soon supply patent glass to other leading stained glass companies and designer as well as making stained glass windows of their own.
 
 

 
 
Work and Prayer by Tom Denny. St. Catherine & St. John Chapel Tewkesbury Abbey.