Brief description: Design for a 2 light stained glass window depicting St Paul, Bishop Patteson and explorers
Proposed design for the seaman's window depicting in the left light, St Paul with explorers John Smith who established the Virginia colony at Jamestown, the ship Arabella which was the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet, carrying Governor John Winthrop and other Puritans to Massachusetts in 1630 and John Franklin who sought to discover the North West Passage, a failed expedition to the Barrow Strait in 1845–1848. In the right hand light, Bishop James Patteson, an Anglican bishop, missionary to the South Sea Islands, and an accomplished linguist who died in the Soloman Islands, alongside Joseph Banks, who landed at Botany Bay in New South Wales in 1770, George Bass discovering the Bass Straits between Australia and Tasmania in 1797, and Matthew Flinders anchoring at Port Lincoln. Flinders was a Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia. Also seen in the window is various heraldic shields, albatross birds and an inscription. The window has a quarry background. This design was created by Christopher Webb (1886–1966), an English stained glass designer based in St Albans, Hertfordshire. He studied at the Slade School of Art and was then articled to Sir Ninian Comper. During his active career from 1920 to 1964 he produced over 400 windows with a distinctive character and style.
Object type: preparatory art work design
Number of objects: 1
Production date: 12.1953
Production period: 20th century
Designer: Christopher Webb (1886 - 1966)
Dimensions: Height: 264 mm, Width: 414 mm
Original location: Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Acquisition: gift 13.3.2024
Acquisition source:
This item is not currently on display and can only be viewed by prior arrangement
Accession number: ELYGM:2024.14.166a
