The sketch to this Window is in the Henfield Museum Collection and we have not been able to see it yet due to Covid restrictions. But Erika visited the church on July 20 2021.
She arrived just as the Church was opening for the end of the school year church service for the local Church of England School. It was a very hot day - 28 degrees. I received a very warm welcome from Father Paul and other members of the church.
The Glasby Window is to be found as the East Window of the South Aisle. The church information states that it is a fourteenth century window.
"This glass was given by Annie Cole in memory of her sister, Jane Elizabeth Cole. The window is the work of William Glasby of Kensington. William Glasby (1863 - 1941) was an ecclesiastical artist. His work is very much in the style of Artist William Morris and is sometimes confused with it. Glasby exhibited designs for stained glass in the Royal Academy on several occassions during the first quarter of this century. He spent his whole career in London but moved to Horsham 3 years before his death in 1941 at the age of 77. The window depicts St Mary the Virgin and the Angel Gabriel in a somewhat Pre-Raphaelite style. Underneath Mary is the text "Behold the handmaiden of the Lord". Underneath Gabriel is the message "Blessed art thou among women". "
Note: We have information that Glasby established a workshop at Three Oaks in Horsham in 1923.
Update: We borrowed the sketches from Henfield Museum in October 2021:
(c) Henfield Museum, November 2021
(c) John Collins and Erika Szyszczak, November 2021.
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