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Jesus on the cross
The east window at Purbrook Parish Church dates from the 1850s and would appear to be the work of Charles Hudson of Pentonville; windows of a similar design can be seen in a photo by Ian Wood taken at Frieth, Buckinghamshire.
The Tractarian enthusiasms of the first vicar (Alfred Poole, protégé of John Keble) are demonstrated in the Eucharistic themes of the three panels of the east window. This panel depicts the crucifixion of Jesus, with his aging mother and St John at the foot of the cross. The Latin inscription comes from the Vulgate Old Testament, Ipse autem vulneratus est propter iniquitates nostras (He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, Isaiah 53, 5).
Little information is available about Charles Hudson (1818/9-1884). He trained as an artist under William Dyce, working in Pentonville as a 'glass painter and stainer in the ancient manner' only in the 1840s and 50s. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1881 with his sixth son, George Vernon Hudson, the noted entomologist.
Jesus on the cross
The east window at Purbrook Parish Church dates from the 1850s and would appear to be the work of Charles Hudson of Pentonville; windows of a similar design can be seen in a photo by Ian Wood taken at Frieth, Buckinghamshire.
The Tractarian enthusiasms of the first vicar (Alfred Poole, protégé of John Keble) are demonstrated in the Eucharistic themes of the three panels of the east window. This panel depicts the crucifixion of Jesus, with his aging mother and St John at the foot of the cross. The Latin inscription comes from the Vulgate Old Testament, Ipse autem vulneratus est propter iniquitates nostras (He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, Isaiah 53, 5).
Little information is available about Charles Hudson (1818/9-1884). He trained as an artist under William Dyce, working in Pentonville as a 'glass painter and stainer in the ancient manner' only in the 1840s and 50s. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1881 with his sixth son, George Vernon Hudson, the noted entomologist.