St Martins Church East Window of South Chancel Aisle
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1878
Materials
Measurements
405 x 300 mm
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Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1290913
Summary
Watercolour and bodycolour on paper, St Martins Church East Window of South Chancel Aisle by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co.(Morris & Co.) (1861-1940); after William Morris (Walthamstow 1834 - Hammersmith 1896) and Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Birmingham 1833 - London 1898). Inscribed 'St Martins Church Birmingham East Window of South Chancel Aisle. Half Inch Scale. Transfiguration. The property of Morris & Company Merton Abbey Surrey' [crossed out: '26 Queen Square, Bloomsbury W.']. Also inscribed with faint pencil notes 'Moses Elyah Elias James John Peter'. Handwritten in black ink on mount card 'Burne-Jones'. A stained glass window design for the East window of the South Chancel aisle of St Martins Church, Birmingham. Three lights depicting three standing saints and three crouched saints. With an inscripted banner above and sections for names below. Background with star detail and green and blue landscape. Three trefoils above depicting three saints, two are holding sheets with symbols on and one is holding and spear and a bowl. Design for tracery between circle details and five- and six-sided shapes. Drawn at a scale of 1/2 inch = 1 foot. The figures were likely designed by the studio of Burne-Jones; the backgrounds and foliage were designed by Morris. St Martins Church was rebuilt in 1873 and was designed by Alfred Chatwin. The Church has another window by Edward Burne Jones, and it is believed that the remaining window was commissioned instead of this design. The Church was bombed in the Second World War in 1941; to preserve the window it was removed and stored in the cellar of Birmingham School of Art. Variations of this design have been used for windows at St Cuthbert's Church, Lytham (1875) and Manor Church Centre, Wallasey (1910). The latter was derelict for several years from 2011 and as of 2021 is now a gym, though the building is Grade II listed and the stained glass windows remain.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust in 1943 following a visit by Sir Geoffrey Mander to the dealer Mr H Burg.
Makers and roles
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. , artist