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Boughton
St Matthew

Glass

Stained glass windows are provided on the eastern chancel and the western nave walls. The former was the gift of the Pickin family in the memory of W J Pickin and the latter in the memory of Mr and Mrs Frogson.

East Window

The three main lights

'Suffer little children to come unto me'

Detail

The east window is of three main lights. The middle light depicts the Crucifixion, with the words “BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD”. To the left is the Resurrection of Christ, with the inscription “I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE”, and to the right is the Ascension (“I ASCEND UNTO MY FATHER AND YOUR FATHER”). Below on the left is Christ receiving children (“SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME”), on the right Christ takes a child into his arms to teach (“DESPISE NOT ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES”) and in the middle (though partly hidden) is Christ as the Good Shepherd.

The window was designed and made by Clayton and Bell of London and installed in December 1870.

A board on the south wall near the south end of the altar rail is inscribed:

+     TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF HIS SERVANT WILLIAM JOHN PICKIN THE EAST WINDOW IN THIS CHURCH IS PROVIDED BY HIS RELATIVES FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS. MAINLY BY HIS EXERSIONS AND LIBERALITY THIS CHURCH WAS REBUILT AND A THE RESIDENT CLERGYMAN SECURED TO THE PARISH. THE INFANT SCHOOL WAS BUILT AND EN- DOWED AT HIS EXPENSE. HE ENDED A LONG LIFE OF CHRISTIAN BENEVOLENCE AND ACTIVE ENDEVOURS TO PROMOTE THE LOVE OF GOD AND THE WELFARE OF HIS FELLOW MEN ON NOV : 9 1869 IN THE 82ND YEAR OF HIS AGE AT WHITEMOOR WHICH HAD BEEN HIS HOME AND RESDENCE FOR 80 YEARS. HE IS BURIED NEAR HIS WIFE AND SON AT THE CHURCH OF ST MARY-LE-WIGFORD LINCOLN. A SINCERE CHRISTIAN AND A CONSISTANT CHURCHMAN HE DID JUSTICE LOVED MER- CY AND WALKED HUMBLY WITH HIS GOD WHATSOEVER HIS HAND FOUND TO DO HE DID IT WITH HIS MIGHT NOT SLOTHFULLY IN BUSINESS HE WAS FERVENT IN SERVING THE LORD. HIS MEMORY WILL LONG BE CHERISHED IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTY WHERE HE WAS BEST KNOWN AND LOVED.

West Windows

The two lancets making up the main lights of the window in the west wall are fairly well separated and perhaps best considered as two windows. They were commissioned by Sarah Ann Denman and Betsy Simpson in memory of their parents and made by Clayton and Bell in 1879.

Southern West Window

Detail

This depicts two scenes from the story of the Good Samaritan (the first one being the lower one, so the window has to be read upwards.)

Text in the window reads:

and along the bottom is the inscription:

Northern West Window

Detail

This shows two scenes from the story of Dorcas (Acts 9.36-41). Like the other window this has to be read from bottom to top.

Text in the window reads:

(There is evidently a spelling error in this and ‘OATS’ should be read as ‘COATS’.)

Along the bottom is the inscription: