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Blyth St Mary and St Martin

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West window to south aisle

Angels with scrolls in the tracery and arms of Mellish and Cunard above two levels of saints under canopies, signed with the wheatsheaf lower left for C E Kempe. The window dates to 1903 and depicts the following:

Upper lights

Lower lights

Inscription panel lower right. The window was restored in 1996.

The inscription reads:

A brass plate under the window reads:

South Aisle Windows

The south aisle south windows are a series of Old and New Testament typological windows in which the New Testament is demonstrated to be the fulfilment of the prophecies of the Old. The windows share the same design and format and are all the work of the same London-based studio of Burlisson and Grylls, although they are for members of different families. The colouring and style of the windows is based on English 15th-century glass. The first four also share the same design for the background at the top of the lights which consists of a square trellis in pale green against a neutral background. The western window, which is the latest of them, does not have it. Three of the windows (s1, s2 and s4 below) were paid for by Col Thomas Weldon and his wife, according to the plaque at the east end of the aisle.

Window s1

Three lights with the Agnus Dei above two angels with scrolls in the tracery. They show:

Left		The doubting of Thomas, above the angels appearing to Abraham and Sarah disguised as strangers
Centre		The Ascension, above Abraham meeting Melchizedek and receiving bread and wine from him
Right		Christ meeting St Mary Magdalene in the garden, above Abel giving his best lamb as an offering

There are canopies to the upper parts of the lights with tracery to the lower, and borders of blue with white devices to all three lights. Shields with IHC and XPC in torses above the first and third lights.

By Burlisson and Grylls.

Inscription as follows:

Window s2

Three lights with the Agnus Dei above two angels with scrolls in the tracery.

Left		The entombment of Christ, above Moses striking the rock
Centre		The Crucifixion, above Moses with the brazen serpent wrapped around a cross
Right		The stripping of Christ, with the figure of the Virgin on the left, above the sacrifice of the Passover lamb

Canopies to the upper parts of the lights with tracery to the lower, and borders of red with white devices to all three lights. Shields with IHC and XPC in torses above the first and third lights.

By Burlisson and Grylls.

The inscription reads:

Window s3

Three lights with the Agnus Dei above two angels with scrolls in the tracery.

Left		Christ before Pilate, above Joseph cast into the pit
Centre		Christ carrying the cross approached by the Virgin and St John, above Abraham with Isaac carrying the fuel for his sacrifice
Right		The Agony in the Garden, above Adam cast out in the wilderness

Again there are canopies to the upper parts of the lights with tracery to the lower, and borders in red or blue to all three lights. Shields with IHC and XPC in torses above the first and third lights.

By Burlisson and Grylls.

The inscription reads:

Window s4

Three lights with an open book and two angels with scrolls in the tracery.

Left		Christ heals the blind man, above the king of Israel looking at the sky to see the clouds that will give him victory over his enemies from 2 Kings 7.5
Centre		Lazarus raised from the dead, above Ezekiel raising the dead from the valley of the bones
Right		Christ heals the leper, above Naaman the leper is healed in the River Jordan

Each of the three lights has the upper scene set under an architectural canopy, with the lower scenes under fictive tracery, and all three lights have decorative borders in red or blue. The initials for Alpha and Omega in Greek are set in torses at the head of the left and right lights.

Inscription as follows:

Window s5

Three lights with figure of God and two angels with scrolls in the tracery.

Left		The baptism of Christ, above David anointed by Samuel
Centre		The presentation of Christ in the Temple, above Hannah presenting Samuel to Eli
Right		Adoration of the Infant Christ by the Virgin and Joseph, above the discovery of Moses in the bulrushes

All three lights have decorative borders in red or blue and the lower scenes of all three lights have fictive tracery while only the centre light has an architectural canopy.

The inscription reads:

North aisle windows

Window n1

Two angels holding scrolls against a blue ground, arranged in two pointed ovals. Includes some fragments of medieval glass.

Window n4

19th-century head of Christ with patterned cross nimbus, above inscription in Latin recording its donation by Maria Amelia Rudd in 1935 (John Rudd was vicar from 1813-34) in memory of John Rudd, vicar of Blyth, his wife Elizabeth and William Thomas, their second son.

The inscription reads as follows:

Ne nomen depereat Johannis Rudd quondam Vicarii de Blyth, Elizabethae uxoris et Guillelmi Thomae Rudd filii secundi hanc posuit fenestram Maria Amelia Rudd A.D. MCMXXXV R.I.P.

(Lest the name of John Rudd, once vicar of Blyth be forgotten. Elizabeth, his wife and William Thomas Rudd, his second son, this window was placed here by Maria Amelia Rudd in AD 1935 Rest in Peace)