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Stained Glass, Leicester Cathedral, by Christopher Whall
My home town is Leicester, but I have not lived there since I was 19, more than 50 years ago. Yesterday we made a belated visit to the mediaeval heart of the city in preparation for a group visit next year. What a transformation is under way! I remember dismal back streets, full of the Dickensian looking offices of 'Solicitors and Commissioners for Oaths'. Now, following the discovery of the skeleton of Richard 3rd , complete with evidence of his Scoliosis, below a local car park there is a new Museum dedicated to Richard, and the Cathedral, which is not huge, is being redesigned and refurbished. There are new hotels and cafes, and lots of student accommodation. Even a Korean Supermarket, for some reason. The model for all this development appears to be nearby Stratford-upon-Avon, which is quite fitting, since it is largely William Shakespeare's toothsome history which has kept Richard's name in the public eye since 1485.
The East Window is by Christpher Whall. It has nothing to do with Richard 3rd but I liked it very much.
'Great East Window: Leicester’s memorial to those that perished in World War One
The Cathedral’s glorious East Window is headed by a radiant, hopeful sun illuminating all things after the difficulties of war. The lower panels are sorrowful with the dead body of Jesus lain beneath the bold, dark wood of the cross. Mary, his mother standing, receives her dead son. St John and the other Mary in the gospel story flank the other side of his body, as together they form a new human family borne out of suffering. Above sits the enthroned and ascended Christ, risen in glory and ministered by the Host of Heaven. Wherever we look in this window – whether into the images of sorrow or victory – God’s glory seems to shine, bringing transformation and hope.'
Iformation from:- leicestercathedral.org/our-life-and-work/world-war-one/re...
Stained Glass, Leicester Cathedral, by Christopher Whall
My home town is Leicester, but I have not lived there since I was 19, more than 50 years ago. Yesterday we made a belated visit to the mediaeval heart of the city in preparation for a group visit next year. What a transformation is under way! I remember dismal back streets, full of the Dickensian looking offices of 'Solicitors and Commissioners for Oaths'. Now, following the discovery of the skeleton of Richard 3rd , complete with evidence of his Scoliosis, below a local car park there is a new Museum dedicated to Richard, and the Cathedral, which is not huge, is being redesigned and refurbished. There are new hotels and cafes, and lots of student accommodation. Even a Korean Supermarket, for some reason. The model for all this development appears to be nearby Stratford-upon-Avon, which is quite fitting, since it is largely William Shakespeare's toothsome history which has kept Richard's name in the public eye since 1485.
The East Window is by Christpher Whall. It has nothing to do with Richard 3rd but I liked it very much.
'Great East Window: Leicester’s memorial to those that perished in World War One
The Cathedral’s glorious East Window is headed by a radiant, hopeful sun illuminating all things after the difficulties of war. The lower panels are sorrowful with the dead body of Jesus lain beneath the bold, dark wood of the cross. Mary, his mother standing, receives her dead son. St John and the other Mary in the gospel story flank the other side of his body, as together they form a new human family borne out of suffering. Above sits the enthroned and ascended Christ, risen in glory and ministered by the Host of Heaven. Wherever we look in this window – whether into the images of sorrow or victory – God’s glory seems to shine, bringing transformation and hope.'
Iformation from:- leicestercathedral.org/our-life-and-work/world-war-one/re...