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 232885
Summary
Painted or stained glass window - One of two smaller of five windows above the choir stalls 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 a large quatrefoil, to the right and left double tear drops and above two smaller uneven quatrefoils. The main painted stained glass decoration is in black and gold (yellow) with border design of concentric circles and floral centres. The large main quatrefoil depicts a golden grown above a shield with six crosses and floral pattern to each of the four quarters and red background to the top and lower quarter representing nobility. The large lower section is made up of two lights 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