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The Story of St Wilfrid's Church

 
 
Cover  -  Front Page  -  St Wilfrid's Church  - The Architect  -  Origin and Early Days  -  Growth  -  Some Dates  -  The Windows
 
East and West Windows  -  North and South Main Aisles  -  The Great Rood, Screens and Organ  -  Chapel of Our Lady
 
Chapel of the Holy Spirit  -  Chapel of St Wilfrid  -  Chapel of St Raphael  -  North and South Choir Aisles  -  The Cloisters and Hall
 

Miscellaneous Gifts  -  Pictures

 

 

 
THE  WINDOWS

 

The windows are all by the same artist, and with one early exception are considered by those best qualified to judge to be among the finest of modern glasswork in England. But they may strike the ordinary visitor as unusual, and the type of glass, and its arrangement may be something of a puzzle to some who see it, and who have grown used to expecting the hideous thick colouring and ugly drawing which have disfigured the window space of so many churches since the mediaeval art of glass-painting was almost lost. The windows, like the architecture, arc typical of the Early English period. They show medallions, united by graceful strap-work, a style in which Mr. Victor Milner, the artist, excels. Nor has he forgotten that the first purpose of a window is to let in, not exclude, light. Especially in the great east window, and in the cast window in S. Wilfrid's Chapel, the artist has caught the mediaeval feeling.

(Descriptions of the various windows are given in this booklet at the appropriate places.)

 

 

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