Arnold
St Mary

Glass

Click the numbers in the key plan for details of the items.

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Key to Windows

1The East Window was erected in 1868 in memory of Emma Buswell Truman, who died 17 February 1873 aged 23, the young wife of the vicar, Marcus Truman. The five panels show the life of Christ: the Nativity with the baby Jesus on his mother’s knee; Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan by John the Baptist; the Crucifixion; the Resurrection; and the Ascension.

2The window in the chancel on the south side is a representation of Christ the King.

3The east window in St Katherine’s Chapel depicts Christ the Saviour of mankind. (A scroll above him reads: Jesus hominum Salvator). In the flanking lights are St George and St Michael. In the tracery are shields carrying the IHS and Chi-rho symbols, and a representation of the Holy Spirit as a dove. The glass is Victorian, and there is a possibility that it is the work of Kempe.

4,5Two windows on the south side of the St Katherine Chapel depict in the main lights various female saints.

The pictured window (No 5 on the key plan) shows St Agatha, St Margaret and St Etheldreda. St Hugh of Lincoln is in the top tracery light, and below him are two angels proclaiming:

Gloria in altissimis Deo
Et in Terra pax Hominibus bonæ Voluntatis

(The inscription, from Luke 2.14, translates: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will).

In the bottom right-hand corner is the inscription:

This window is dedica-
ted to the Honour of
God and in loving mem-
ory of Mary Anne and
Alice Acton A D 1909

6The window behind the font was given in 2005 by a long-standing churchwarden, Fred Peck, and his family. The details depicted in the glass refer to the Church as the House of God and also as the Body of Christ.

7The window in the west wall near the font was given by the Bolton family in memory of their 19-year old son Mark, an altar server at St Mary’s. He was killed in a climbing accident in the Alps in 1990 and the design of the window is based on one of his own pictures. The inscription reads simply:

IN THANKSGIVING FOR PHILIP MARK BOLTON

1971         1990

8The window in the ringing chamber in the tower depects Faith, Hope and Charity, both in the main lights (with figures) and in the tracery (with symbols). Along the bottom is the inscription:

Ann Jones the last of her Family caused this window to be erected at her expense She Died 19th Nov 1862 aged 70

9The window at the back of the north aisle in the west wall was given in memory of Ken Negus, a former churchwarden and Arnold Librarian and local historian. It was originally a window removed from a redundant London church and restored. It depicts Jesus with a female saint playing a lyre (said to be Saint Dorothy, though she is not associated with music).

The inscription at the bottom reads:

To the Glory of God and in memory of
Kenneth Negus 1922-1993

10Window of plain glass

11The window in the middle of the north wall was given in 2003 by Norman Simpson, a churchwarden, and his wife Margaret. It represents Mount Sinai and the giving of the Ten Commandments.

A brass plaque below the window reads:

MOUNT SINAI        AN ENCOUNTER WITH GOD

A THANKSGIVING FOR OUR LIFE TOGETHER   MARGARET AND NORMAN SIMPSON
DEDICATED 31ST AUGUST 2003 BY THE RIGHT REVD GEORGE CASSIDY BISHOP OF SOUTHWELL

12Window of plain glass

13Small window of plain glass, placed high in the north chancel wall

Clerestory Windows

There are four small clerestory windows on each side of the nave. All contain plain glass in diamond quarries.