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The millennium window, St Mary's parish church, Carlton, Beds. It is the work of John Lawson of Goddard & Gibbs Studio. Giant tongue of flame, representing the Holy Spirit, come down on the community, past and present. In each light is a symbol - the cross for faith, the anchor for hope and the heart for charity.
St Ann, Manchester, 1709-12.
Memorial Window to the Rt Rev James Fraser (1818-1885), Bishop of Manchester 1870-85.
Designed by Frederic James Shields (1833-1911).
Made by Heaton Butler & Bayne, 1889.
Detail.
Clement Heaton (1824-1882).
James Butler (1830-1913).
Robert Turnill Bayne (1837-1915).
Clement Heaton, the son of a Methodist minister in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, was in 1851 a glass painter for William Holland of Warwick. He was in London by 1853 and briefly in business alone before going into partnership with James Butler in 1855. Around 1860 the two briefly shared premises with Clayton and Bell, an association of lasting importance, as the third member of the firm, Robert Turnill Bayne, who was also from Warwick and became chief designer in 1862, was an employee of theirs. Heaton pioneered the use of softer colours, but Bayne’s advent brought the firm to widespread attention. Most of their earlier glass was gothic in style, but the firm adapted to later influences, notably that of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The firm was used widely by Sir Arthur Blomfield, but in later years less of its output was glass for churches. Heaton’s son Clement John joined for a short time, but fell out with his partners. The firm continued until 1953 under descendants of other partners, after which most of its archives were destroyed for lack of interest.
Amongst other important commissions, Frederic Shields designed the windows in the Chancel of St Ann's Church, Manchester. He drew out a complete scheme for the church's stained glass based upon the theme of a Shepherd. The east windows behind the altar and the north and south aisles all have this theme, and were the work of Heaton, Butler & Bayne.
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Thursday, April 5 2012
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This is one of many broken windows on this old barn, I absolutely love it.
Buying Warped Tour tickets today wooo
HDR image.
No idea what the building was but it looked good for a photo.
Copenhangen Waterfront.Denmark.
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What better way to celebrate window Wednesday than to stand in a window doing the Wednesday Dance. In the red picture frame is Jenna Ortega who plays Wednesday Addams in the hit Netflix series Wednesday and originated the dance.
I do not do the dance nearly as well, but I do have a cool mask and hat.
We're Here shakes it out to Window Wednesday.
See the Wednesday dance here:
Great set of windows in the Christ Episcopal Church in Middletown, New Jersey. Lovely historical building with a very old cemetery.
Looking out from Downhill Demesne and Hezlett House, Castlerock, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
East window of the south aisle by Ninian Comper, 1920.
St Mary's church in Clifton upon Dunsmore has a small, box-like late medieval west tower (an odd carving of a bear halfway up the west side is now worn beyond recognition) and largely 13th/14th century nave and aisles with evidence of Norman work in the earlier chancel. The church has been much restored and the interior now has a very Victorian feel to it (new chancel arch and the one Norman window virtually renewed).
There are some quaint corbel heads supporting the nave roof, but otherwise the only antique element is a not very elegant Baroque memorial in the chancel (Orlando Bridgeman 1721). There is a mixture of Victorian stained glass of decent quality, Hardmans in the chancel and north aisle, some Burlison & Grylls, a fine St Paul & Timothy by Kempe and one by Comper. The font is a curious block-shaped thing c1900.
The church is usually kept open for visitors 10am - 4pm most days.
For more detail on this church see it's entry on the Warwickshire Churches site below:-
warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/clifton-upon-dunsmore---s...
Presenting... my new business mobile phone: an O2 XDA Mini S. It's rubbish: but more of that later. First, O2's customer service.
Oh, my God. Up until now I'd been a customer of Orange since it launched, with a short unfaithful affair with Virgin Mobile. While Orange are a shadow of their original loveliness, O2 really takes the biscuit in crappy, crappy, customer service.
First, this is my business mobile phone. I can't receive or send picture messages, and I have a legitimate business requirement to do both. The O2 contract is dealt with by head office in Scotland, but my only contact is with our own office in London.
So, I ask the people in London to get picture messaging working on my phone. They ring Scotland. Scotland rings O2. I get a direct call from O2's customer services. I explain the problem ("It says 'user barred' when I try to send an MMS, and sends me a text message when I receive an MMS asking me to log onto a website."). They promise to send me the settings to correctly send an MMS message. I point out that I'm running an O2 phone and that I've checked the preset settings on their website. They say they'll send me the settings. "How will this help when my account is not set up to allow me to even receive picture messages?" They say they'll send me the settings, and that somehow it will. "Will the email have your contact details on it?" Yes, I'm assured.
The email arrives, from a send-only email address which has no contact details. It contains "How to send a picture message" from my phone. That's not, in any sense, 'settings', and not, in any sense, relevant to my enquiry.
Instead of wasting my team's time who'll then have to ring Scotland to ring O2, I look on O2's website to discover the customer services number, and ring it. "Please enter your mobile phone number," says the machine. I do. It tells me that for my account, please "ring the number on the last invoice". I don't sign off the invoices. I have no such number.
I email London, who email Scotland, who reply to tell me that it is now being provisioned on my account and that it'll work in 24 hours.
I try sending a picture message 24 hours later. I get the above message.
Clearly it's an impossible task for O2 to suitably understand a chinese whisper via our London and Scotland offices; or clearly it's impossible for them to understand a simple request to switch on a service that will inevitably mean that they will earn more money. I have no idea which, but I'm bored trying to find out.
(Please don't send me picture messages any more, not that anyone does anyway.)
[Disclaimer: I am responsible for a unconnected business relationship with O2, and have enjoyed some hospitality from the company.]