Posts Tagged ‘stained glass’

18
Nov

Harborough Magna – All Saints.

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Harborough Magna’s All Saints parish church built of coursed limestone and red sandstone retains the tower, north and south arcades, north aisle, and chancel arch from the 14th century. The chancel, and south aisle were rebuilt when the vestry and clerestory were added in the 19th century.

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11
Nov

Dunchurch – St. Peter.

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The parish church of St. Peter’s Dunchurch, Warwickshire, was extensively restored in 1908. It was rebuilt in the 14th century from an earlier church and the tower was added in the 15th century. Very little remains of the earlier church except for the 13th century south wall of the chancel, piscina, and the base of the arcade pillars.

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The East window is by Herbert Bryans a former student Charles Eamer Kempe. The church contains a number of memorial windows to those that fought in the 1914-1918 war. In particular is a window and plaque dedicated to Frank Robert Harbord, vicar of this parish who was killed at Ypres France on August 8th 1917.

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Other memorials to those that fougt in the 1914-1918 war are to the boys and masters at Dunchurch Hall preparatory school, and to Harold John Houldsworthy 1919.

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5
Nov

Marton – St. Esprit.

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St. Esprit Marton

Rebuilt in the Gothic Style in 1871, very little remains of the earlier church except for the lower part of the tower and south aisle which are mid 14th century church, and the south porch doorway which is an early 13th century pointed arch of two orders.

Built of coarse limestone and sandstone, the church of St. Esprit consists of a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, west tower, organ-chamber, and south porch.

 

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East window St. Esprit Marton Font St. Esprit Marton 1940s memorial window St. Esprit Marton

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4
Nov

Stretton-on-Dunsmore – All Saints

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All Saints - Stretton-on-Dunsmore Altar, All Saints - Stretton-on-Dunsmore (by Walwyn)

Designed by Thomas Rickman and completed in 1837, except for the memorial east window in 1936, All Saints Stretton-on-Dunsmore remains unaltered. Built of brick and faced with stone ashlar it consists of a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, west tower, vestry and choir vestry.

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Th church also contains a mid-sixteenth century French stained glass window in the south wall of the chancel.

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St. Peter and St. Clare Fenny Compton Interior St. Peter and St. Clare Fenny Compton

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Tower and spire St. Peter and St. Clare Fenny Compton

14th century parish church of St. Peter and St. Clare, Fenny Compton. Extensive remodeling of the aisle and arcade occurred late in the century when the tower was added. The clerestory was added in the 16th century, however there is no trace of the original 14th century flat roof. All the windows are modern stonework, except for those in the north clerestory which are 16th century. The roof was restored in 1879.

The communion rails have turned balusters of the 17th century.

Memorial window St. Peter and St. Clare Fenny Compton detail Memorial window St. Peter and St. Clare Fenny Compton Memorial window detail St. Peter and St. Clare Fenny Compton

This Victorian memorial window in the north wall is dedicated to a Thomas Payne an engineer who built an embankment across the Glaslyn estuary at Porthmadog. Porthmadoc itself is built on the land reclaimed as a result of the embankment.

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