[18886] St Margaret, Ilkley : Christ with the Doctors of Law Window

St Margaret, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, 1878-79.

Christ with the Doctors of Law Window.

 

This centre panel was made by Henry James Salisbury (1864-1916), c1911, as part of a memorial window for Dunstable Priory. That window became redundant and was saved by The London Stained Glass Repository, which stores glass of special historical or artistic merit in hope of future use.

 

This panel was restored and installed here in May 2004. The plaque beneath it gives details as to what is original and what was added in its restoration. The additions were the upper section - in the trefoil down to and including the cross - and the lower section - down from and including "To the glory of God".

 

The window pictures the moment when the twelve-year-old Jesus is discovered by Mary and Joseph in the temple at Jerusalem listening to and questioning the teachers there. Jesus says to his parents in response to Mary's reproach for the anxious searching he has caused them: "Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"

 

The roundels in the lower section, added in the restoration, contain representations by the restorer, Keith Barley of York, of, in the left one, St Peter's Church, Tankersley, South Yorkshire, where the donor's father was baptised and confirmed, and, in the right one, an emblem used by the donor.

 

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