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Two-light memorial window - Cold Ashby

Two-light memorial window - Cold Ashby

This two-light window forms a companion piece to the adjacent memorial to Emily Bateman, and commemorates the ministry of the Revd Gregory Bateman himself. Together, the two windows present a paired memorial to domestic virtue and clerical vocation, unusually personal in tone for a late nineteenth-century parish church.

Apostles and Prophets - Braunston, Northamptonshire

Apostles and Prophets - Braunston, Northamptonshire

This four-light window presents a clear, didactic pairing of New Testament witnesses above Old Testament prophets, a scheme that emphasises continuity between prophecy and fulfilment.

Upper register: The Evangelists, each standing beneath canopies, are shown from left to right as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, identifiable by their attributes and inscriptions. Their placement in the upper tier underscores their authority as authors of the Gospel narrative.

St Martin - Litchborough, Northamptonshire

St Martin - Litchborough, Northamptonshire

This stained-glass window of 1883, made by J. Powell & Sons (Whitefriars), is located in the church at Litchborough. It depicts St Martin of Tours on horseback sharing his cloak with a beggar — one of the most enduring episodes of late Roman Christian legend.

Annunciation

Annunciation

Comparision of two Annunciation windows, by the Julien Fournier Studio, dated 1885 and 1886 in Pontlevoy and Cheverny respectively.

 

 

 

Tewkesbury Abbey

Tewkesbury Abbey

Between 1886 and 1892 John Hardman and Company designed a produced a number of windows for the nave of Tewkesbury Abbey. In addition to the large west window that show scenes from the life of Jesus, they also produced a number of other windows relating events in the life of Christ.

 

 

Selles-sur-Cher

Selles-sur-Cher

Dated 1887 this window of St Joseph, by Noel Lavergne, is in the church of Notre Dame la Blanche, Selles-sur-Cher.

 

 

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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