Brief description: Design for a 3 light stained glass window depicting an angel with agricultural scenes in the left and right lights
Proposed stained glass design for the eastern most window of the south aisle, features an angel surrounded by scenes of agriculture and the seasons. The angel carries two horns of plenty, traditional harvest symbols. People shelter from rain, harvest and burn crops, pick fruit, carry firewood through a snowy forest, ice skate and warm themselves by the fire. A rotund squirrel perches on the left-hand side. An extract from the Benedicite, a common canticle (song), and the sky fills the tracery. Where a sun beams down in the matching window, here a moon and stars shine. The composition creates a more universally appealing, if twee, sense of life and routine. Here, the client has not yet chosen an inscription. 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 artwork design
Number of objects: 1
Production date: 5.1958
Production period: 20th century
Designer: Christopher Webb (1886 - 1966)
Dimensions: Height: 167 mm, Width: 302 mm
Inscription: tracery BLESS YE THE LORD lower tracery O YE STARS OF HEAVEN PRAISE HIM AND MAGNIFY HIM FOR EVER base INSCRIPTION.
Original location: Wirksworth Church, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Acquisition: gift 13.3.2024
Acquisition source: Edwards, J
This item is not currently on display and can only be viewed by prior arrangement
Accession number: ELYGM:2024.14.4
