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Tour of St Lawrence Church
17. Second window on south wall of Sponne's Chapel

Image of stained glass window


1a-c inscription: IN THY / LIGHT SHALL WE / SEE LIGHT.
2-5 a-c: scene of Transfiguration: Christ in centre flanked by Moses on left, Elijah on right; Peter, James and John crouched below. (See Matthew 17:1-8).
5 a-c: canopywork.

Donor inscription:
TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS WHITE GURNEY OF THIS TOWN WHO DIED IN LONDON
DECR. 30TH 1873
ERECTED BY HIS AFFECTIONATE WIDOW
JUNE 1879

ALSO IN MEMORY OF CAROLINE MILLER GURNEY HIS WIDOW,
WHO DIED SEPT. 4TH 1887.
REMEMBERED BY HER GRANDSON GEORGE MILLER GURNEY 1971

The window was designed by
H.Hughes. London
Henry Hughes, born in Shropshire, (1822 - 1883) was the son of a butcher, and worked as an apprenticeship at Ward & Nixon, stained glass manufacturers. Throughout the 1800’s the quality of the glass had been a major limiting factor to designers. It was not until the late 1840’s that a range of pot-metal coloured glass was produced that looked like medieval glass and Ward & Hughes were the first firm to use it.

Ward and Hughes were responsible for designing and erecting a large number of windows in the Diocese of Lincoln including Lincoln Cathedral, so it is no surprise that they were commissioned to design a window for St Lawrence.