Post-war modern

David the Psalmist and St Francis - Desborough, Northamptonshire

David the Psalmist and St Francis - Desborough, Northamptonshire

This two-light memorial window, dated 1948 and signed by G. E. R. Smith , was executed under the name of A. K. Nicholson Studios following the death of Archibald Keightley Nicholson in 1937. It commemorates John H. Hawes, musician and poet, killed in action on 16 March 1945 aged twenty-five, together with other members of the church who fell in the Second World War.

Notre-Dame de la Blanche

Notre-Dame de la Blanche

This two-light stained glass window, dated 1949, presents a modern devotional image of Notre-Dame de la Blanche, conceived in the years immediately following the Second World War. Designed by Gaston de Bodard and executed by the Orléans master-glazier Louis Gouffault, the window unites traditional Marian iconography with a meditation on conflict, protection, and historical continuity.

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