St Peter
Detail of the easternmost south aisle window depicting Christ's calling of St Peter by Albert Lemmon, 1943.
St Peter's church at Greets Green, West Bromwich, a little known Black Country gem built in 1858, most notable for some stunning stained glass inside, foremost of which are the three gorgeous late Arts & Crafts windows by Bromsgrove Guild artist Albert Lemmon.
The church itself is a fairly restrained design for the Victorian period and at first glance could easily be mistaken for a much older building. It is on a fairly grand scale though and within seems quite spacious, its whitewashed walls helping to balance the loss of light owing to the rich glass in several of the windows.
The glass is the main event here visually, with three of Lemmon's best windows to be found in pride of place behind the main altar and one at the end of each side aisle. The other windows are worthy of note too, ranging from the late 19th century to the 1970s.
Greets Green church is normally kept locked outside of services (like most in the endless suburbia of the West Midlands county) and thus generally only known to the regular Sunday congregation, so I am hugely grateful to Ben Sinclair who arranged for the churchwarden to open up so that I could see and share its stunning glass, little known masterpieces that are well worth seeing.
St Peter
Detail of the easternmost south aisle window depicting Christ's calling of St Peter by Albert Lemmon, 1943.
St Peter's church at Greets Green, West Bromwich, a little known Black Country gem built in 1858, most notable for some stunning stained glass inside, foremost of which are the three gorgeous late Arts & Crafts windows by Bromsgrove Guild artist Albert Lemmon.
The church itself is a fairly restrained design for the Victorian period and at first glance could easily be mistaken for a much older building. It is on a fairly grand scale though and within seems quite spacious, its whitewashed walls helping to balance the loss of light owing to the rich glass in several of the windows.
The glass is the main event here visually, with three of Lemmon's best windows to be found in pride of place behind the main altar and one at the end of each side aisle. The other windows are worthy of note too, ranging from the late 19th century to the 1970s.
Greets Green church is normally kept locked outside of services (like most in the endless suburbia of the West Midlands county) and thus generally only known to the regular Sunday congregation, so I am hugely grateful to Ben Sinclair who arranged for the churchwarden to open up so that I could see and share its stunning glass, little known masterpieces that are well worth seeing.