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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
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:
I started a series on my blog called "My Neighborhood" that focuses on some of the characters and things in my neck of the woods in Manhattan, the East Village. I include a few things that aren't necessarily there.
Great set of windows in the Christ Episcopal Church in Middletown, New Jersey. Lovely historical building with a very old cemetery.
The cathedral of St Etienne in Chalons sur Marne (renamed the more tourist friendly Chalons en Champagne in 1998) is unusual amongst French cathedrals in that it barely registers on the city's skyline, having no major tower or spire (the two pyramid capped belfries on the transepts barely extend above roof level). There once was a lofty steeple over the crossing, but this collapsed in the 17th century, damaging the choir which still betrays baroque alterations to this day, as does the west facade completed at this time (which looks oddly stuck on to the gothic structure behind).
The bulk of the cathedral dates from the 13th & 14th centuries and the nave posseses some fine stained glass from both ends of the gothic era.
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...