The east window at All Saints, Ladbroke is one of the most densely populated compositions produced by Hardman & Co., containing over eighty individual figures arranged across the lights and tracery. It represents the firm at the height of its High Victorian confidence, where scale, narrative ambition, and visual abundance are combined within a tightly controlled Gothic framework.

The timber roofs of the nave, chancel, and south-east chapel at All Saints date from the major late fifteenth-century rebuilding of the church, undertaken from c. 1470 onwards under the patronage of the wealthy wool merchants John and William Browne. This campaign transformed the clerestory ⓘ, aisles, tower, and spire, and included the construction of richly carved angel roofs.

This two-light window, dated 1911, presents a celestial choir of angels and takes its text from the Te Deum:

“To thee all Angels cry aloud.”

Main Lights

Both lancets are filled with richly coloured angels arranged in tiers, some kneeling, others standing, their gestures directed upward and inward. A scroll bearing the text of the Te Deum flows across the composition.

Set in the tracery above the three-light window depicting St Anne, the Virgin Mary ⓘ, and St Elizabeth—designed respectively by Ford Madox Brown (Anne and Elizabeth) and Edward Burne-Jones ⓘ (central Mary)—this Annunciation scene was designed by William Morris in 1880.