These two four-light windows form a matched narrative pair illustrating Christ’s teaching, “Suffer the little children to come unto me.” Both windows are characteristic products of the John Hardman studio in the later Victorian period.

The composition in each window is framed by Hardman’s distinctive border of alternating red, blue, and white panes with gold devices, a formula widely used by the firm from the 1870s onward. The figures display the firm’s typical modelling: strong black contour lines, bright enamel colours, simplified but rhythmic drapery folds, and serene, idealised expressions typical of Hardman’s ecclesiastical house style.

In the two central lights of each window, Christ receives and blesses children brought to him by their parents. The flanking scenes show further groups approaching, forming a continuous devotional procession across the pair. The landscapes, haloes, and architectural canopies echo Hardman work elsewhere in major cathedral commissions of the period.

Installed as part of the cloisters’ 19th-century restoration, these windows reflect the Victorian church’s emphasis on moral instruction and the nurturing of Christian innocence. They stand among the finest surviving examples of Hardman’s later narrative glazing at Gloucester.