Stained Glass of Percy Bacon & Brothers

South Nave 1. Ascension. 1915.

South Nave 1. Left Light detail.

South Nave 1. Left Light detail.

South Nave 1. Centre Light detail.

South Nave 1. Centre Light detail.

South Nave 1. Right Light detail.

South Nave 1. Right Light detail.

South Nave 1. Left Light background detail.

South Nave 1. Right Light background detail.

South Nave 1. Tracery detail.

South Nave 1. Ascension. 1915.

Posted 27 September 2025.

There is now just a single window in the south of this rather stubby nave. It is of three lights with tracery, and is set within a blind arch which was once part of a two bay south aisle. The other arch is now pierced by the south door, and a short wooden porch. Another filled-in arch at the south west of the chancel suggests that the south aisle extended beyond the nave, possibly housing a lady chapel.

Across the three lights is a representation of the Ascension of Christ witnessed by his disciples. Mary is absent, unlike Percy Bacon's other representations at Writtle, Essex, St John's, Boscombe, Dorset, St Bride's, Liverpool, and Castle Sowerby, Cumbria where she is included. The scene in the background is gracefully painted. On the left can be seen a church on a rocky hill possibly reflecting Jesus's words, "On this rock I build my church" (Matthew 16:18). On the right is an exquisitely painted tree which seems to glow from the light cast by the rising sun of a Sunday morning.

In the lower lights of the tracery three angels with golden wings look on, while in the upper lights are Alpha and Omega symbols and a white dove representing the Holy Spirit.

The window was unveiled on Friday 10th December 1915, and is a memorial to the Rector, the Rev. James Edmund Wallis Loft and his wife.¹ The inscription reads:

The window is unsigned.

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1. Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser - Saturday 25 December 1915, p8.