Stained Glass Window (1933)

Post date: Oct 22, 2013 4:25:33 PM

Extract from Evening post, New Zealand of 27 March 1933.

A Memorial Window. In the Kent village at Wateringbury near Maidstone, a stained-glass window has been placed in the church as a memorial to a lady who was a lifelong friend of'the birds and all small innocent creatures (states a correspondent). The memorial is a picture of St. Francis with a robin redbreast perched on his finger, and a frieze of all kinds of birds —owls, ducks, magpies, and kingfishers—about him. By his side is a doe, and an angelic child, such as the Italian masters loved to paint, plays on his lute an accompaniment to the songs of the birds. The window has been placed in the church in memory of Lady Crofton by her husband.

The artist who has achieved such a graceful fancy is Mr. James Kerr Lawson, who painted the Peace Poster which appeared on Armistice Day of the tillers and harvesters bringing home the produce of the soil.