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All Saints - Ladbroke, Warwickshire

All Saints - Ladbroke, Warwickshire

The east window at All Saints, Ladbroke is one of the most densely populated compositions produced by Hardman & Co., containing over eighty individual figures arranged across the lights and tracery. It represents the firm at the height of its High Victorian confidence, where scale, narrative ambition, and visual abundance are combined within a tightly controlled Gothic framework.

 

 

 

 

Annunciation - Middleton Cheney

 

Set in the tracery above the three-light window depicting St Anne, the Virgin Mary , and St Elizabeth—designed respectively by Ford Madox Brown (Anne and Elizabeth) and Edward Burne-Jones (central Mary)—this Annunciation scene was designed by William Morris in 1880.

 

 

 

 

Chancel Windows - All Saints, Brixworth

Chancel Windows - All Saints, Brixworth

The two windows in the north wall of the chancel in the Saxon church of All Saints, Brixworth are by Burlison & Grylls , dated 1913 and 1915, they are from the first quarter of the 20th century.

 

 

Coronation of Henry III - Gloucester Cathedral

Coronation of Henry III - Gloucester Cathedral

This 1860 window by Clayton & Bell depicts the coronation of Henry III in St Peter's Abbey (later cathedral), Gloucester, on the 28th of October 1216. A second coronation was performed at Westminster Abbey on 7th May 1220, Westminster Abbey, because Pope Honorius III did not consider that the first coronation had been conducted properly.

 

Crucifixion - Whilton, Northamptonshire

Crucifixion - Whilton, Northamptonshire

This east window presents a compact yet richly articulated Crucifixion composition, arranged across three principal lights beneath a tier of tracery lights. it is typical of late-Victorian Gothic Revival glass, and demonstrates Burlison & Grylls ’ characteristic clarity of drawing, strong colour harmonies, and careful architectural setting.

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