Stained Glass of Buckinghamshire Churches

Windows by C E Kempe & Co. Ltd. - Maker

This limited company was formed in 1907 to take over the business of Charles Eamer Kempe which had been in operation from 1866 until Kempe's death in 1907. Kempe had left very specific instructions that a Limited Company should be formed with his younger cousin Walter Ernest Tower as Chairman, and the following as Directors: Alfred E Tombleson (Master Glass Painter), Thomas Woolf (Secretary), John Lisle (Designer and Draughtsman), William Tate (Architect). This had all previously been agreed with Kempe beforehand, and the Company's name was C E Kempe & Co Ltd. They continued working for 24 years, but demand for their Gothic style of Stained Glass was rapidly decreasing in the 1920s, and the recession of the 1930s forced closure in 1934. A motif for the new Chairman, Walter Tower, was incorporated into the company's Makers Mark, with a tower in the middle of Kempe's wheatsheaf. Although a few show a tower upside-down, just one, in Slough, shows a tower on its side, marking the very last Kempe window to be produced on the demise of the company in 1934.

23 Windows, listed in Date Order

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Window	Location	Church	Date	Craftsmen
	West	St Peter in Chalvey (Slough)	1880 & 1911	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	S aisle S (E)	St Mary in Slough	1893, 1931	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	N chapel N	St Mary in Amersham	1908	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	East	St James in Barton Hartshorn	1909	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
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	East	St Mary in Princes Risborough	1909	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	Chancel S (E)	St Laurence in Winslow	1909	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	N aisle N (E)	St John the Evangelist in Ashley Green	1910	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	N transept N	St James in Barton Hartshorn	1910	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
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	S aisle S (W)	St Andrew in Great Linford (MK)	1910	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	S aisle E	St Michael and All Angels in Waddesdon	1916	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	West (S)	St Nicholas in Kingsey	1919	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	West (N)	St Nicholas in Kingsey	1919	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
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	Chancel N (E)	St Michael in Lavendon	1919	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	East (S)	All Saints in Marsworth	1919	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	Chancel S (W)	St Laurence in Winslow	1920	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	N aisle E	St Michael and All Angels in Waddesdon	1921	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
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	Nave N (C)	St John the Evangelist in Farnham Common	1922	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	Chancel S	St John the Evangelist in Farnham Common	1929	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	Behind Organ	St Laurence in Winslow	1929	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	S aisle S (W)	St Mary in Slough	1930	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
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	S aisle S (E2)	St Mary in Slough	1931	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	Nave S (E4)	All Saints in Coleshill	1933	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.
	N aisle N (E)	St Mary in Slough	†1933	C E Kempe & Co. Ltd.

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Stained Glass of Buckinghamshire Churches