East Window, Hawkshead Parish Church
I nearly entitled this, "Plan 'B' ", as, because of grey, windy, drizzly weather at the start of my holiday, I spent most of the first week going round churches in the S. Lakes, photographing any stained glass windows that caught my eye. This had definitely not been my first intention for the holiday!
The rather ornate East window in the delightful old, Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Hawkshead, depicts Jesus' Ascension into heaven, fourty days after his Resurrection, witnessed by the Disciples, (minus Judas, who betrayed him.) .The brochure notes that this window replaced a plain rectangular window (probably like Grasmere Church still has), and that for modern taste, the new one (1895) does not match the simple dignity of the old building. I couldn't agree more, as I'm not very keen on it either, but I posted it as a foil to the next which is of Grasmere.
The Nativity window in the South West corner of the Church is a very different style and one of my favourites, but I'll save that for Christmas time.
East Window, Hawkshead Parish Church
I nearly entitled this, "Plan 'B' ", as, because of grey, windy, drizzly weather at the start of my holiday, I spent most of the first week going round churches in the S. Lakes, photographing any stained glass windows that caught my eye. This had definitely not been my first intention for the holiday!
The rather ornate East window in the delightful old, Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Hawkshead, depicts Jesus' Ascension into heaven, fourty days after his Resurrection, witnessed by the Disciples, (minus Judas, who betrayed him.) .The brochure notes that this window replaced a plain rectangular window (probably like Grasmere Church still has), and that for modern taste, the new one (1895) does not match the simple dignity of the old building. I couldn't agree more, as I'm not very keen on it either, but I posted it as a foil to the next which is of Grasmere.
The Nativity window in the South West corner of the Church is a very different style and one of my favourites, but I'll save that for Christmas time.