St John the Baptist, Corby, 1922 "DORCAS".
- Erika Szyszczak and John Collins
- 17 hours ago
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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. In the Green archive there is also a Window at Careby in Lincolnshire but with no information. It could be Glasby was confused. There is a list of the stained glass that Glasby painted for Morris & Co. 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
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.



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