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Posted 23 May 2023. Updated 13 December 2022 & 17 May 2023..
St Andrew's is a large church with a fine, tall square tower of five stages, topped at the corners with slender well proportioned pinnacles. A good deal of the church is 14th century. It was restored by Arthur Blomfield in 1888. There is a long and slender embattled nave with clearstory and north and south aisles (the south extending well beyond the east end of the nave) and a large chancel.
There are three windows in St Andrews which can be attributed to Percy Bacon and Brothers, though further research is required to confirm that this is correct.
The grand east window, of four lights and tracery depicts the three women at the empty tomb in a unified scene (specifically the story told in the Gospel of Luke 24:1-6, which tells of them meeting two men, "in shining garments")*. Centre are two angels with souring, outstretched red wings. In the tracery stand angels with feathered mandorla, the lower cohort in prayer and the upper (rather strangely) with their arms aloft. The figures are repeated in pairs of identical, mirrored paintings. There are no canopies.
The window is a memorial to Lady Maria Welby who died 1920 and her son Richard a casualty of the First World War. Lt. Welby of the 2nd Grenadier Guards took part in the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action at Cour de Soupir, the battle of Aisne 16 September 1914. He is buried in Soupir churchyard near Yailly on the Aisne. More here. The window was donated by Sir Charles Glynne Earle Welby and was installed circa 1924/5.2
Inscription, partially hidden by the reredos: "Why seek ye the living among the dead?
He is not here, but is risen." (Luke 24:5-6).
The window is unsigned and undated.
North Aisle 1: Three light window with simple Y-tracery. Figures of St George, St Andrew and St Hugh as Bishop of Lincoln stand on ornate pedestals with souring elaborate canopies above. There are no flanking columns. IHS monograms above George and Hugh. At the foot of George a red fire breathing dragon; St Andrew holds a book, and a simple saltire cross made from tree branches at the base, while Hugh is accompanied by his attribute, a white swan. In the tracery angels with outstretched arms.
The window is dedicated to the memories of brothers John & Richard Bullock. Although undated, a Richard Bullock, Grocer, is recorded as having died on 30th December 1910.3 John William Bullock died in May 19134, dating the window to circa 1914. However, who actually commissioned this window, and whether it was executed at the same time at that adjacent and the inscription added later is unclear. There is no signature or identifying rebus, but the window is stylistically attributable to Bacon. The second window in the north aisle is in the same style.
North Aisle 2: Three light window with simple Y-tracery identical to North Aisle 1 forming a unified pair. Figures of Faith, Charity and Hope stand on ornate pedestals with souring elaborate canopies above. There are no flanking columns. IHS monograms above Faith and Hope, and a heart below Charity. Each holds their emblems of crossed staff, a child and an anchor. In the tracery angels with outstretched arms replicating those in the adjacent window. At the very top a white dove,
The window is dedicated to the memories of George and Jane Bullock, and was given by their son, Richard. George Bullock died in 1860 and his wife, Jane died in 1908.5 Richard died in 19102 so this must date the windows to circa 1909-10.
The window is unsigned and undated.
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- Nikolaus Pevsner, John Harris, Nicholas Antram: Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1989
- Grantham Journal - Saturday 17 January 1925, p8. Report on the meeting of the Parochial Church Council.
- Grantham Journal, Saturday 26th August 1911, p5
- Family search website. Grantham Journal, 10th May 1913, p4.
- Ancestry website.
- In another of the firm's windows in Holy Trinity, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, whose style is very similar, Bacon depicts the scene as retold by Mark (16:1). in this window only a single angel greets the three women. However, Bacon also alludes to the story told in the Gospel of John by including, in the far backgound, the figures of Mary Magdalene, Peter, and another disciple hastening towards the sepulcre.
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