19th century

Risen Christ - Byfield, Northamptonshire

Risen Christ - Byfield, Northamptonshire

A richly coloured memorial window by Charles Eamer Kempe fills the east wall of the south chapel.

  • Centre light: The Risen Christ, crowned and bearing the banner of the Resurrection, stands in triumph. Below, St Anne with the Virgin emphasises lineage and devotion, anchoring the Resurrection theme in holy kinship.

  • Left-hand light: St Thomas , holding a spear, identified by his traditional attribute.

  • Right-hand light: St George, the soldier-saint, likewise armed, balancing the composition with martial sanctity.

Rosenkrantz, Arild

Active: 1892–1964
Rosenkrantz, Arild

Born in Denmark in 1870 at Frederiksborg Castle Denmark Arild Rosenkrantz was the son of the Danish minister to Italy.

Sacrifice, suffering, and redemption - Thrapston, Northamptonshire

Sacrifice, suffering, and redemption - Thrapston, Northamptonshire

This multi-light stained glass window, dated 1863 and designed by William Wailes, presents a richly structured typological meditation on sacrifice, suffering, and redemption, characteristic of mid-Victorian Anglican theology and narrative glass.

Upper register (New Testament)

The principal upper sequence depicts the central events of Christ’s Passion and glorification:

  • The Agony in the Garden

  • Christ carrying the Cross

  • The Crucifixion, occupying the dominant central position

  • The Resurrection

Saints and Cathedrals - Stamford, Lincolnshire

Saints and Cathedrals - Stamford, Lincolnshire

This four-light window, at All Saints Stamford, dated 1897, was executed by C. E. Kempe & Co. and presents the patron saints of four major English cathedrals: Lincoln, Peterborough, Lichfield, and York.

Each saint stands beneath elaborate architectural canopies, with heraldic devices displayed below and cathedral associations indicated by inscriptions.

From left to right:

  • St Hugh of Lincoln, bishop and reformer of the twelfth century, holding crozier and book.

  • St Peter (Peterborough Cathedral), bearing keys and pastoral insignia.

Saints and Patriarchs - Salisbury Cathedral

Jacob and Moses

 

The sequence of stained glass windows depicting the male saints and patriarchs of the Bible, designed by Henry Holiday and made by James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars Glass) in 1891, forms one of the most coherent and dignified ensembles within Salisbury Cathedral’s late Victorian glazing scheme.

Saints and the Te Deum - Stamford, Lincolnshire

Saints and the Te Deum - Stamford, Lincolnshire

This monumental six-light west window, installed in 1888, was executed by Clayton & Bell and commissioned by Edward Ingersoll Browne of Boston, Massachusetts, in memory of Charles Browne, descendant of the fifteenth-century Browne family of Stamford. It consciously recalls the Browne family’s late medieval patronage of the church.

The programme follows a hierarchical structure consistent with the hymn Te Deum laudamus, uniting angels, prophets, saints, and narrative scenes in a vertical theological progression.

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