St John the Baptist, Corby, 1922 "DORCAS".

When we received the Virginia marketing document there were a number of new Windows/ churches on the list which did not tally with our list of Vidimus or the list of Windows in the Appendix to the Article written by Dennis and Joan Hadley using Donald Green’s research.

We have written to the “new” churches asking if they have a Glasby Window. But we began to suspect that Glasby was listing Windows he had painted for Henry Holiday and Morris & Co.

One church on the Virginia list is named “Corby” in Lincolnshire. But we discovered that Corby added "Glen" to its name to distinguish itself from the Corby in Northamptonshire. We discovered that the Rev Abbott was Rector at St Andrew's at Irnham, Lincolnshire and that Glasby had mistakenly placed the Rev at St John, Corby, Lincolnshire.

In the Green archive there is also a Window at Careby in Lincolnshire but with no information. It could be Glasby was confused. In March 2026 John Collins visited Careby and discovered an opus sectile panel and this now forms a "New Work" Log 70. There is no information on the panel and it is not signed by Glasby.

In the Morris & Co. archive and there is an entry for Corby dated 1922 "DORCAS".

 We wrote to St John’s Church at Corby, Northamptonshire and Kay Watt, the

Parish Office Administrator replied that there is a “Dorcas” Window and enclosed a photograph.

This matches the photograph by Janet Stone on Flickr  in

Burne-Jones Catalogue Raisonné | Dorcas; Timothy stained glass St John the Baptist church, Corby, Northamptonshire

There is no information on the designer/painter but the Bibliography refers to the mentions of the Window in Albert Charles (A. C.) Sewter, The Stained Glass of William Morris and His Circle, 2 vols (1974 & 1975 - Catalogue) and Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination, 2011. and Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination, 2011.

(c) Kay Watt, 2026