Stained Glass of Percy Bacon & Brothers

Eldersfield. Church of St John the Baptist. East Window. Representations of St Peter (left) and St John the Baptist (right) with agnus dei in tracery and angels playing instruments in the predella.

Eldersfield. Church of St John the Baptist. East Window. Representations of St Peter.

Eldersfield. Church of St John the Baptist. East Window. Representations of St Jophn the Baptish.

Eldersfield. Church of St John the Baptist. East Window predella. Angels playing musical instruments.

Eldersfield. Church of St John the Baptist. East Window tracery. Agnus Dei with flag standing on a sealed book.

East window, 1907

Posted 29 October 2025.

There is a single window by Percy Bacon & Brothers in St John the Baptist, Eldersfield. It is a small two light window with simple tracery at the east end of the chancel, the two main panels representing the standing figures of St Peter and St John the Baptist with angels playing musical instruments in the predella. In the tracery is a repressentation of the Agnus Dei standing on a sealed book.

The window is not dedicated in vitro, but on a brass plate on the chancel wall.

Above each figure a scroll with the words:

St Peter: "Feed my sheep".
St John: "Prepare ye the way".

Although the window is dedicated to people who died in the early 1890s, it does not appear to have been installed until 1907. It was donated by the family of the late Rev. Holmes.¹

The window is unsigned.

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1. Tewkesbury Register - Saturday 06 April 1907, p5.