[14050] Southwell Minster : Noble Window

Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire.

The Cathedral & Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Chapel of Christ Light of the World.

 

Memorial Window to John Noble (1828-1896) of Littleover, Derby.

By Christopher Whall (1849-1924), 1906.

Latin dedication.

Detail.

 

The left light shows the Crucifixion.

The right light shows an Angel and St John on Patmos.

 

Christopher Whitworth Whall (1849-1924) was the son of a clergyman and grew up in Thurning, Huntingdonshire. He studied painting at the Royal Academy Schools in London under Frederick Leighton but in the later 1880s decided to learn the processes of making stained glass. He designed for James Powell & Sons but was frustrated by the lack of control over the completed windows. In the field of stained glass he had a profound effect as a practitioner, teacher (at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London) and writer. His book Stained Glass Work, published in 1905, remains profoundly influential to this day.

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