Mary Thorneycroft (1814–1895) was an English sculptor active in the mid nineteenth century, notable as one of the earliest women to achieve professional recognition in British sculpture. Working within a restrained neoclassical tradition, she produced portrait busts, ideal figures, and commemorative works characterised by clarity of form and academic discipline.
"Three young men in the fiery furnace" Edward Burne-Jones ⓘ (1870).
Allegorical figure of Science on the tomb of the physicist Ottaviano Fabrizio Mossott (d1863) in the Camposanto Monumentale, Pisa, by the sculptor Giovanni Duprè.
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.
This window by Hardman (1892) is Christ in Glory with the prophets Moses and Elijah to the left and right.
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.
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.
This two-light window is a personal memorial commissioned by the Revd Gregory Bateman in memory of his wife Emily Bateman, and illustrates her remembered loves of music and gardening through paired symbolic scenes.
This window by CE Kempe was installed in the South Aisle Chapel in 1897 to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The window was paid for by subscription from the women of the parish.
Count Vittorio Alfier (d1803) was an Italian poet and dramatist who wrote some 19 tragedies between 1775-1787.
