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East Window: Crucifixion; BVM & St John: 1903 - 1904.
Posted 09 January 2023.
The east window was installed piecemeal between April 1903 and June 1904. In the first phase only the centre light and tracery were installed, the outer lights being left plain.1 The two side lights were installed the following year once the additional estimated £70 had been collected.2 The dedication runs across all three lights so must have been painted contiguously following the installation of the outer lights. It reads:
At the base of the central light:
Frederick Temple
was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1896 until his death on 23 December 1902, not long after visiting Egerton.
The centre light is a crucifixion scene. Around the cross are wrapped intricate vines laden with fruit symbolic of John Ch 15, "I am the true vine, and my Father the husbandsman", an often used Bacon motif when space did not permit the inclusion of additional figures (cf Wingrave (south chancel). Lucker, and Langley Marish). Above St Mary, "Ecce filius tuus", and above John, "Ecce mater tua" (Behold my son, Behold thy mother). Each figure is dwarfed somewhat by the highly elaborate niches, which Newman describes as being, "overloaded".4
The window is unsigned.
North Nave 4: St John the Evangelist; 1903 (attribution).
Posted 09 January 2023.
On the face of it this window does not look like the work of Percy Bacon. However, the Church Stained Glass Record website4 attributes both north nave windows to Percy Bacon, quoting faculty references, so it is included here. However, until any further corroborative information comes to hand for this project north nave 4 window will be deemd "attribution only".
Simple single lancet without tracery and lacking the usual Bacon Studios elaboration, depicting the standing figure of St John the Evangelist holding a book and quill set in lightly tinted diamond quarries.. The short dedications read:
The window is unsigned.
North Nave 3: Christ the Good Shepherd & Light of the World: 1908 (attribution).
Posted 09 January 2023.
Simple two light window lacking the usual Bacon Studios elaboration. The two standing figures of Christ are set in lightly tinted diamond quarries. In the tracery an angel holds a shield bearing the IHS monogram. The dedications read:
Beneath the Good Shepherd:
her sister who died April 12 1887 aged 69 years. Jesu mercy".
Beneath the Light of the World::
faithful service to this parish of Michael and Harriet Long. ☩
The offering of many friends ☩ S. Matthias Day 1908. ☩
The window is unsigned. Attribution by Church Stained Glass Records.4
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- Kentish Express; Saturday 11 April 1903, p3. The article only refers to the central light depicting the crucifixion and tracery light with a representation of Christ seated in majesty. The Vicar, as was reported, "...will be glad to receive contributions towards [the side lights]. He is anxious to raise £70 and hopes to find 70 persons who will subscribe £1 each".
- The Builder; 25 June 1904: Vol 86 Iss 3203. p698.
- Newman, John, Buildings of England, Kent & Weald, 2012, p238.
- For attribution of the north nave windows, see Church Stained Glass Records entry for Egerton.
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