Gothic Revival

East Window - Crick Northamptonshire

East Window - Crick Northamptonshire

The east window of the parish church of St Margaret, Crick, is a large multi-light stained-glass composition dated 1857, by Lavers & Barraud1, and predates the appointment of Nathaniel Westlake as principal designer at the firm. Occupying the principal liturgical position, the window presents a carefully structured theological programme combining figures of prophecy, witness, and redemption.

South Chancel Window - Wolston Warwickshire

South Chancel Window - Wolston Warwickshire

This south chancel window at Wolston, designed by Herbert Bryans, is a two-light composition dated by inscription to 1902 and belongs to Bryans’s early independent period following his departure from the Kempe studio.

Description and iconography

The upper lights present two standing figures beneath tall Gothic canopies, arranged as a typological pairing concerned with prophecy and fulfilment.

Transfiguration - Guilsborough, Northamptonshire

Transfiguration - Guilsborough, Northamptonshire

This stained-glass window depicting the Transfiguration of Christ was made in 1887 by Burlison and Grylls and presented to the church by Lady Cicely Clifton. It follows a well-established iconographic scheme, arranged in two registers beneath a Gothic architectural canopy.

 

 

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