Window
Charles Eamer Kempe (Sussex 1837 - London 1907)
Category
Stained glass
Date
Unknown
Materials
Red Runcorn Sandstone, Stained Glass & Lead
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire
NT 232880
Summary
Painted or stained glass window - One of two larger windows above the High Altar in the Chancel with the lower lights left to plain glass and the top smaller lights painted and decorated. The window is in the perpendicular style in the form of a pointed arch. The top lights are surrounded by tracery of the flowing decorated style. To the top of the window in the tracery painted stained glass in three quatrefoils surrounded by smaller triangles, double tear drops and central ellipses with tear drop to each side. The majority is made up of borders with concentric circles and floral decoration to the centre in black and gold (yellow). The centres of each of the three quatrefoils have a circle depicting a red rose to the lower two and a buckle to the top taken from the Newcastle coat of arms. The larger lower section is split into two sections made up of three lights in each of plain diamond shaped glass.
Provenance
Acquired with the estate in 1946 from the Trustees of the 9th Duke of Newcastle
Makers and roles
Charles Eamer Kempe (Sussex 1837 - London 1907), designer Charles Eamer Kempe (Sussex 1837 - London 1907), artist