Stained Glass of Buckinghamshire Churches
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Location in Church: | N chapel (E) |
Type: | 3 lights |
Size (width x height): | 5' 0" x 7' 11" or 1.52m x 2.12m |
Subject(s): | Parable of the Good Samaritan
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Subject(s) - Notes: | Window shows the Levite and the Priest who both avoid the traveller that has been robbed, and the Good Samaritan who helps him. |
Date Made: | 1883 |
Craftsman: | Heaton Butler & Bayne, Maker |
Craftsman - Notes: | The fitting of this window meant that all three East facing windows have glass by the same company, Heaton Butler & Bayne.
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Sources for Dates & Craftsmen: | Church's 1951 Guide Book Bucks Herald of 29 Sep 1883 |
Dedicated to: | Elizabeth Bird
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Donated by: | James Henry Bird
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Window in Situ
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Overall View of Glass
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All 3 lights: Main scenes
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All 3 lights: Tops of lights
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LH light: The Levite who passed by on the other side
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Centre light: The good Samaritan helps the traveller who had been robbed
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Centre light: detail
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RH light: The priest who passed by on the other side
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RH light: detail
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All 3 lights: Base and inscription "In memory of Elizabeth Bird who died the 21st of August 1853 aged 14 years"
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