Norfolk Stained Selection of Favourites
Here we have selected our personal favourites. The only basis for inclusion is the fact that we like them ! As such the glass selected is quite eclectic and includes windows as diverse as the macabre medieval "Dance of Death" and the Victorian "Blessed Girls" from Booton. We hope you enjoy looking at them.
![dance of death St Andrews church norwich](images/dance_of_death.jpg)
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![St Peter Mancroft Norwich East window of medieval stained glass](images/peter_mancroft.jpg)
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![St George Tombland Norwich Labours of the Month](images/labours_month.jpg)
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![St Margaret Norwich East window](images/St_Margaret.jpg)
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![norwich guilldhall angel](images/guildhall.jpg)
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![blessed girlss of Booton Church Norfolk](images/blessed_girl_Booton.jpg)
![Booton church norfolk stained glass](images/blessed_girl_Booton_rhs.jpg)
In our opinion everyone should visit Booton Church. We are not saying you will like it but you will definitely have an opinion on this “ Gothic Revival extravaganza… raised from banality by the roof & glass.” (Simon James) The nave windows are superb. They depict a procession of angels walking through verdant fields and flowers said to have been portraits of “blessed girls” with whom Elwin (the Church’s creator and rector) was “an affectionate, almost intimate counsellor.” Individually the windows are beautiful en masse they create a stunning scene.
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![Frettenham east window stained glass](images/Frettingham_east.jpg)
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![East Barham Norfolk Angel with flute](images/East_Barsham_lhs.jpg)
![East Barsham Norfolk Angel with Harp](images/East_Barsham_rhs.jpg)
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![Hingham Church Norfolk East window](images/Hingham_East_window.jpg)
Thanks to the activities of John Christopher Hampp the county contains many examples of early European glass however this window has been accredited by David King as being “the most impressive”. We like it becuase of the contrast it makes with English designed windows of the same period
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![Garboldiston Church norfolk children in stained glass](images/garbalderston_children.jpg)
The beauty of the Victorian glass at Garboldisham is that it was all produced by one workshop : J Powell & Sons. Although no one window is outstanding, as a group of windows it is unique described by Birkin Haward as a collection “….of works of national consequence” It differs from the Garboldisham “Blessed Girls” in that all the windows differ in design and were made over a relatively long period (approximately 35 years) . We particularly like these lovely angels which contrast greatly with their medieval counterparts.
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![Denton Church norfolk east window stained glass](images/Denton_east_window.jpg)
We hope we have done justice to this eclectic collection of glass which has been described by Birkin Haward as “one of the most impressive collections of 16th / 17th fragments remaining in East Anglia”and by David King as being “the most exuberant and in some ways the most interesting” patchwork of miscellaneous fragments to be found in Norfolk. It is an extraordinary window and one we all enjoyed discovering, and we hope you do as well……
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