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[93429] St Edmund, Downham Market : Haylock Window
St Edmund, Downham Market, Norfolk.
Window by William Morris of Westminster, c1919.
Detail.
To the Glory of God and in loving memory of George William Haylock sometime Chorister and Organist at this church. Died Nov 9 1918. This window was erected by George Edward and Agnes Eliza, father & mother.
For in the days of David and Asaph of old, there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
William Theodore Morris (1874-1944) and his studio had no link with Morris & Co, with which this firm was frequently confused. This Morris was a Londoner and son of Richard Morris (1842-1911) who worked in the field of glass design and decorative glass all his working life. William Morris set up a glass manufactory in 1901, moving to Rochester Row, Westminster in 1905. He also supplied ironwork before establishing a stained glass studio and brass foundry (much in demand after World War I for memorials) and the firm supplied leaded lights and casements for houses. In the 1930s, beset with financial difficulties, it was sold, whilst its premises were bombed in World War II. It restarted in 1946 in Great Peter Street, near other ecclesiastical suppliers, under F W Cole, chief designer and remained there until it closed in 1958.
[93429] St Edmund, Downham Market : Haylock Window
St Edmund, Downham Market, Norfolk.
Window by William Morris of Westminster, c1919.
Detail.
To the Glory of God and in loving memory of George William Haylock sometime Chorister and Organist at this church. Died Nov 9 1918. This window was erected by George Edward and Agnes Eliza, father & mother.
For in the days of David and Asaph of old, there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
William Theodore Morris (1874-1944) and his studio had no link with Morris & Co, with which this firm was frequently confused. This Morris was a Londoner and son of Richard Morris (1842-1911) who worked in the field of glass design and decorative glass all his working life. William Morris set up a glass manufactory in 1901, moving to Rochester Row, Westminster in 1905. He also supplied ironwork before establishing a stained glass studio and brass foundry (much in demand after World War I for memorials) and the firm supplied leaded lights and casements for houses. In the 1930s, beset with financial difficulties, it was sold, whilst its premises were bombed in World War II. It restarted in 1946 in Great Peter Street, near other ecclesiastical suppliers, under F W Cole, chief designer and remained there until it closed in 1958.