Stained Glass in Kent - Friends of Kent Churches

This is a list of the windows of which I showed photographs in a talk on stained glass in Kent given to the Friends of Kent Churches on 14 March 2019. The place (always the parish church unless otherwise stated), position of the window in the church, the subject matter, maker or designer and date are given in each case. Where two names are shown, the first is the maker, the second the designer.

The best collections of medieval glass in Kent are at Canterbury Cathedral, Stowting and Nettlestead. Many churches have fine collections of 19th century glass: among the best are Canterbury and Rochester Cathedrals, Ramsgate St Augustine, Faversham, Chilham, Tenterden, Wrotham, Seal and, for the pre-Raphaelites, Speldhurst and Langton Green. The best displays of 20th century glass are at Kemsing and, of course, Tudeley.

Canterbury Cathedral. North choir aisle – typological (ie prefiguration in the Old Testament of events in the New Testament) windows Late 12thC
Canterbury Cathedral. Trinity Chapel – Becket Miracle windows – early 13thC
Chancel north window – patterned glass – late 12thC
Chancel north window – grisaille – 13thC
North chapel, east window – Crucifixion – early 14thC
North aisle, NE window – Virgin & child – early 14thC
Traceries of nave & north aisle widows – Apostles – mid 14thC
North aisle, north window -Virgin & child -mid 14thC
East window – Coronation of the Virgin – late 14thC
Nave NE window – Censing angel – early 15thC
Nave north central window – Apostles – c1430
Chancel NW window – St Stephen – c1460
Nave south window – Saints – 15thC
Chancel NW window – St Edmund Rich – 15thC
Nave south window – St George – early 16thC
North chapel, east window – armorial glass – early 17thC
East window – armorial glass: Fane, Nevill, Walsingham families – 16/17/18thC
South aisle, south window – Crucifixion – Peter Bock of Altdorf – late 16thC
North chapel, north window – Flemish glass – 17thC
Nave north windows – Saints – William Peckitt of York – 1754
Nave NE window – Bishop – Charles Winston/J H Miller – 1832
Northern window in nave west wall – Charles I – Franz Eggert of Munich – 1844 (Almost the whole church was glazed by Eggert)
Ramsgate, The Grange. Pugin’s private chapel – Saints with Pugin children – AWN Pugin/Wailes – c1845
Canterbury Cathedral. Nave north clerestory – Angels – George Austin Jun – 1856
East window – Christ’s passion etc – Wailes – 1864
Ramsgate, St Augustine. South aisle, SE window – Saints – John Hardman Powell – 1861 (The church contains much glass designed by Pugin and made by Hardmen)
South aisle, East window – Virgin & Saints – Lavers & Barraud/J M Allen – 1861
East window – Crucifixion – Lavers & Barraud/E W Godwin -1862
Higham, St Mary. East window – Christ, Virgin & St John – Heaton, Butler & Bayne – 1864
Higham, St Mary. Chancel south window – Agony in the Garden – Heaton, Butler & Bayne – 1864
Sutton Valence. East window – Christ’s passion – Lavers & Barraud – c1866
South chapel, south window – Christ in Majesty – Clayton & Bell 1866
Horton Kirby. West window – Ascension – O’Connor – 1863
Ide Hill. West window – Scenes from Christ’s life – Alexander Gibbs – late 1860s (The whole church was glazed by Gibbs)
Nave South aisle, south window – St Anne teaching the Virgin – Alexander Gibbs/William Butterfield – 1867
Seal Chart. East window – Christ teaching – Lavers & Barraud/Henry Holiday – 1870
Sevenoaks Weald. East window – Crucifixion – Powell’s/Sir TG Jackson – 1871
Lower east window – Three Maries at the tomb – Nathaniel Westlake – 1873
Newington (near Sittingbourne). East window – Crucifixion – Heaton, Butler & Bayne – 1873
East window – Resurrection – John Hardman – c1870 (The whole church was glazed by Hardman)
Boughton Monchelsea. Chancel SW window – Three Maries at the tomb – John Hardman – 1875
South aisle, west window – Christ’s miracles – John Hardman – 1879
Langton Green. North aisle, west window – Christ in Glory – Morris & Co/ Burne-Jones – 1866.
This church has other important windows by Morris, Burne-Jones & Ford Maddox Brown)
North aisle, west window – Angel – William Morris – 1873 (This church was almost wholly glazed by Morris & Burne-Jones)
Nave SW window – Evangelists – Morris & Co/Burne-Jones – 1875
Nave SE window – Evangelists – Morris & Co/Burne-Jones – 1875
South transept, west window – St John – Morris & Co/Burne-Jones – 1881
Bexleyheath, The Red House. Birds – Philip Webb – c1870
Bexleyheath, The Red House. Duck – Philip Webb – c1870
North aisle, NE window – patterned glass – Powell’s – 1877
New Romney. South chapel, south window – Angels rescuing seafarers – Clayton & Bell – 1875
South transept, south window – Transfiguration – Clayton & Bell – 1885
Four Elms. East window – Ascension – Clayton & Bell – 1887
Seal: North aisle, NW window – Christ walking on water – John Jennings – 1888
Nave NE window – Nativity – Charles Eamer Kempe – 1893 (Kempe glazed all of this church)
East window – Annunciation – Arild Rosencrantz – 1896
Christ & the Good Samaritan – Curtis, Ward & Hughes – 1896
East window – Christ in Glory – Sir Ninian Comper – 1901
Langton Green. East window – Tree of Jesse – Kempe – 1904
East window – Christ in Majesty – Burlison & Grylls – 1907
North aisle, north central window – St George – H W Bryans 1911
Nave SE window – Transfiguration – Christopher Whall /Henry Wilson – 1905 (See also Whall’s major window in the SW transept of Canterbury Cathedral)
Chancel SW window: St George – Veronica Whall – 1925
Chiddingstone Causeway. East window: Crucifixion – WG von Glehn – 1906
East window – Crucifixion – Kempe – 1908
South chapel, east window – Crucifixion – Morris & Co – 1908
Tonbridge, St Stephen. North aisle, west window – Three Maries at the Tomb – Morris & Co/J H Dearle – 1910 (Morris & Dearle glazed all of this church)
East window – Ascension – Morris & Co/J H Dearle – 1910
East window – Te Deum – A L Moore – 1911
St Nicholas at Wade. East window – Crucifixion & bishops – Curtis, Ward & Hughes – 1912
North aisle, north central window – Angels & St Michael – Kempe & Tower – 1917
East window – Christ in Glory – F C Eden – 1920
Rochester Cathedral. Lady Chapel, west window – Virgin & child – Burlison & Grylls – 1920
East window – Annunciation – Martin Travers – 1925
Nave north window – Angels amidst roses – Reginald Hallward, as a memorial to his wife – 1925
Nave north central window – Saints Joan, Dunstan & George – A K Nicholson – c1925
South chapel, south window – Knight – G W Humphrys – c 1928
North aisle, west window – St Edith – Douglas Strachan – 1935
East window – Crucifixion – Evie Hone – 1950
Tonbridge, St Peter & Paul. East window – Ascension – Leonard Walker 1954 (see also east window at Lydd)
North aisle, west window – Saints – Harry Stammers – 1962
East window – Crucifixion – Marc Chagall – 1963 (Chagall glazed all of this church)
East window – Christ in Majesty: the vision of St John – Patrick Reyntiens 1963
Beckenham, St George. Apse windows – Saints – Thomas Freeth – 1963-6
South aisle, west window – St Thomas Becket – Laurence Lee – 1970
Canterbury, St Dunstan. South chapel, east window – St Thomas Moore – Laurence Lee – 1973
Nave SW window – Annunciation to the Shepherds –
John Piper – 1985
Oare. Nave south window – Mulberry tree – Petri Anderson – 2011