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Window: 01, East, St Mary, Linslade, Old (N of town)
Important Church Note: | In 1965 Linslade was transferred from Buckinghamshire to Bedfordshire, and from the Diocese of Oxford to the Diocese of St Albans.
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Location in Church: | East |
Type: | 3 lights |
Subject(s): | Joseph,
Nativity & 1 King,
2 Kings
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Date Made: | 1897 |
Craftsman: | Cakebread Robey & Co., Maker |
Sources for Dates & Craftsmen: | Makers Mark |
Dedicated to: | 60th year of Queen Victoria's Reign
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Donated by: | Henry Finch paid for East window with restoration of church to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
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Makers Mark on Window: | |
Notes on Window: | The East window is reputed to have previously had glass showing a King (possibly Henry VI or VII), a Queen, St John, Cardinal Wolsey, and a Dove. The fragments in windows 03 and 06 (and other loose fragments in the church) may have been part of the earlier East window.
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Window in situ
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Overall View of Glass
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Centre light: Nativity Scene with 1 King
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Centre light: Close up of figures
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Centre light: Close up of King and Baby Jesus
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LH light: Joseph
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RH light: Close up of Joseph
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RH light: Close up of 2 Kings
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Inscription at base of 3 lights: "They Presented Unto Him Gifts Gold Frankincense & Myrrh"
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Centre Light: Canopy in Head of Light
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Makers Mark: "Cakebread Robey & Co, 86 High St, Stoke Newington, London"
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