Log 160. Southwell, Holy Trinity, ?Notts or St Leonards, Newark
- Erika Szyszczak and John Collins
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 22
We think this is St Leonard, Newark, in the Diocese of Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
The Work:- One Light.
Date:- Not known.
Location:- Not known, see below. [North Aisle]
Subject:- Jesus and “suffer little children”.
Inscriptions:- None.
Dedication:- Not known.
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Back of the sketch has Glasby’s Kensington address overwritten with Putney.
Research shows that the church has been demolished. Without verification we were told that the Glasby window has been sold to an American collector.
See: Thoroton Society, "A church for the present and of the past: St Leonard's, Newark," By Jeremy Lodge:
" In 1976 the Parish Church Council passed a resolution to declare the church redundant and demolish it.3 The Newark Advertiser on 23rd July 1977 reported that the Church Commissioners had prepared a draft pastoral scheme for the redundancy and demolition and disposal of St Leonard’s Church, subject to the provision of a new place of worship in the Diocese of Southwell.
The new church was to be built in conjunction with the Bridge Community Centre. This would cost £40,000 of which £30,000 would be covered by the sale of the old church building and furnishings and a grant from the Diocese.
The people of the parish were asked to raise the remaining £10,000 which they did through various means, such as buying bricks at 10p each, collecting scrap and the sale of art. On 30th October 1978 The Advertiser reported that Churches of many denominations, including Roman Catholics and Methodists, from all over the country had been buying the original church furnishings."
Regarding date of the work see the Article:- Donald Green, Dennis Hadley and Joan Hadley, “The life and work of William Glasby (1863 – 1941)”, The Journal of Stained Glass, vol xxxii (2008), 91 – 106 which dates the Window 1925
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