Joining in

The new East window

First photos

Work is now complete! The new East window will be available to view from Saturday 7th December. It will be dedicated in a special service of Choral Evensong on Sunday 9th February 2025 at 3pm – and not 2nd February as originally advertised..

There is a separate website explaining the window in more detail here

Meanwhile, Ros Russell who is a member of the East Window committee has written:

The dust sheets are coming off, the vacuum cleaners are ready, carpet fitters are poised and… what a place to do a little toil !!! I think we’ll be the luckiest cleaners ever.

Before the internal scaffolding came down, a professional photographer was there to record the window in detail. He will be coming back later to get the full window and the sections for which the scaffolding was in the way. I will put photos on the website as soon as I get them.

I did get a few close-ups too though and I am sharing some of the gorgeous detail below, especially for those of you who aren’t close enough to visit. The colours are totally stunning.

Tom is going to write an explanation of the inspiration for the whole window and each smaller tracery and section which we will use to caption all the photographs we use in the memorial book. On which note, we are getting excited about the content now. As well as recording the donors and the wonderfully varied personal memorials, we plan to include sections on the history and making of the window and then, very importantly, we will also publish in due course, a smaller version of the book at an affordable price.

The previous window was in a poor and fragile condition but there is some glass that’s salvageable; it’ll be used for a new window overlooking the Lady Chapel in the North Aisle of St John’s.

The former east window

Thomas Denny’s design

“Most of my windows are in churches, and their themes are scriptural”
Thomas Denny speaks further about his work on his own website here

Thomas Denny examines two newly etched pieces of glass