Window: 08, West, St Paul, Bledlow Ridge

Location in Church:

West

Type:

3 lights

Size (width x height):

6' 7" x 13' 7" or 2.01m x 4.14m

Subject(s):

Abstract

Date Made:

1968

Craftsmen:

John Piper, Artist
Patrick Reyntiens, Maker

Sources for Dates & Craftsmen:

Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, N Pevsner & E Williamson, 1994

Donated by:

Louise McMorran, of Pound Scots, Bledlow Ridge, for many years a churchwarden of this parish, 1st March 1968

Notes on Window:

John Piper's abstract design of discs and oblongs runs across the 3 main lights and 3 quatrefoils in the tracery above. That was a theme in some of his large windows. Piper wrote "The function (the flesh and blood and bones of stained glass , its whole being) is to qualify light and to intensify atmosphere in a room or a building, not necessarily to produce colour or a message".