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Installed in 1967, this is the fhe first and largest of the windows designed by Marc Chagall for All Saints' Tudeley, in Kent. It is a memorial to Sarah d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, daughter of a local landowner, who drowned in a sailing accident off the Isle of Wight at the age of 21.
Combining elements from Sarah's life and death in graphic detail, it moves from despair in the dark , swirling seas of the bottom lights , to hope and the joy in the brighter colours of the top lights, where a crucified Christ awaits Sarah's arrival with welcoming arms out-stretched.
Sarah was the daughter of a Jewish father and an Anglican mother but had been brought up as an Anglican. Having a keen interest in art, she had seen and admired the Twelve Tribes of Israel windows which Chagall had designed for the Hadassah Medical Centre synagogue in Ein Karem, Jerusalem, when they were displayed in Paris prior to their installation. Her parents, therefore, decided to ask Chagall, a Jew himself but with a strong spiritual sense which crossed religious boundaries, to design the memorial window, which he duly did.
If you look on the church website you can also see one of Chagall's earlier sketches for this same window but featuring Sarah floating in a kind of sea of flowers. It's under the heading 'The window that never was' at www.tudeley.org/allsaintstudeley.htm
it's all about the view...literally~ I have been practicing with shooting INTO window light. I love to use window light as often as possible, but tend to shy away from placing my subject directly in front of a window. Here, my daughter was using window light to light up her objects of play and I was using it to light her up! ;)
Sunny window somewhat framed by shadows on a building at Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton, Maryland.
The medieval stone church in Lammi was built in the 15th century and was dedicated to Saina Catherine of Alexandria. The whole inside of the church was destroyed in a fire in 1918 and after that was totally renovated in 1920
My cat Mee-chan looking at the sunset while a storm is brewing in the background... Actually, I had no idea what she was looking at during the time I was taking shots with one hand while holding the blinds open with the other to let the sunlight in. And it was a manual lens so I had to move my head and the camera back and forth instead of turning the lens focus. The shot is a wee-bit soft... Sometimes I need more than two hands. Taken only a few hours ago. The saturated colors are from using a Polarizer filter.
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For several years the same beggar was on the bridge. --- This corner of the campo is a spot where older gondoliers enjoy hanging out.
One of a pair of new windows installed in 2018 and made by the Art of Glass studio.
St Mary's church Ullenhall, built 1875 by J.P.Seddon.
From the centre of this village near the Warwickshire/Worcestershire border it appears there is nothing here to see that pre-dates the Victorian Era, however the ancient predecessor of this parish church still survives, albeit in truncated form, hidden from view up winding lanes some distance to the northeast of this church.
The Victorian church is really rather charming inside, all white rendered with some interesting flourishes. The only stained glass was until recently the geometric patterns in the seven apse windows, but this has now been joined by two attractive contemporary windows recently added at the west end.
I have always found this church kept locked, and had never been inside before this trip, however making arrangements with the lovely people who look after this church was easy and they kindly enabled me to see inside at last.
My house had awesome windows with tons of natural light. A 1950's brick ranch with basement. Frog loved watching squirrels here.
Eyes are the windows to the soul...
Matthew 6:22
The light of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Looks soooo much better large!
This Rose Window, also the East Window, is the symbol of All Saints' Cathedral. Upon entering the church, it immediately strikes the visitor. This window also heads the Cathedral's stationery.
I sometimes think of it as the star of Bethlehem.
It is hard to photograph it with a simple camera, and this is the best among my many attempts.
St Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire.
Rogers Memorial Window, 1939 - detail.
By Florence Camm (1874-1960).
This window was created to the Glory of God and in loving memory of the Rev EH Rogers, Prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral, and Vicar of this Parish Church of Tamworth from 1922 to 1938.
Florence Camm spent all her life in Smethwick, running the successful Camm stained glass company with her two brothers at a time when women artists and designers were struggling to be taken seriously. Florence was a stained glass designer, painter and decorative metalworker. She exhibited 43 times at the Royal Academy in London and also showed at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and the Royal Scottish Academy.
Florence was the daughter of Thomas William Camm who was born in 1839 in Spon Lane, West Bromwich. He set up the TW Camm stained glass business in Smethwick and Florence and her two brothers, Walter and Robert, continued after he died in 1912. Florence was taught stained glass design by the arts and crafts designer Henry Payne (1868-1940).
Robert died in 1954, Florence in 1960 and Walter in 1967. The firm closed at about the same time. The studio in the High Street in Smethwick was demolished in the 1980s and a shop now stands on the site.
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When this church suffered bomb damage in 1941, all but one of the stained glass windows were destroyed, this window survived.
Named the Nunc Dimittis window (one of the canticles said or sung at Evening Prayer according to the Book of Common Prayer),
it shows the story of Simeon holding Jesus in the temple after being told that he would not die until he had seen the Lord's messiah. On the right an elderly prophet, Anna who had also been waiting night and day in the temple to see Jesus. On the left are Mary and Joseph who had come to the temple with an offering of two doves to present the baby to God according to Jewish custom.
The window was installed in 1921 in memory of Mr and Mrs J Cross. There were originally two adjacent windows depicting the Magnificat and the Te Deum which did not survive the bomb blast.