South Leverton
All Saints

Glass

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

Key to Windows

Chancel

On the north wall

1,2,3Single lancets glazed with white plain diamond quarries.

4Single lancet with stained glass depicting St Luke. Probably by William Wailes of Newcastle.

Given in memory of a surgeon, Henry Blenkarne. There is a brass commemoration plate in the cill, reading:

+TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF HENRY BLENKARNE
OF LONDON SVRGEON WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN CHRISTIAN FAITH
JANY 27TH 1867 AGED 65 - THIS WINDOW IS PLACED BY HIS WIDOW
+ I WAS GLAD WHEN THEY SAID VNTO ME WE WILL GO INTO THE HOVSE OF THE LORD

(The Biblical quotation in the last line is from Psalm 122.1)

On the east wall

5,6,7

The three
east lancets		 Figure of
our Lady
Figure of Christ
on the cross		 Figure of
St John

Three grouped single-light lancets, the central being taller than the flanking ones. All contain stained glass by William Wailes of Newcastle. The windows were the gift of J. and W. White in memory of their father.

North
   Our Lady
Centre
   Christ on the cross
South
   The apostle, St John

These replaced a four light window which had been inserted previously and which was in very poor condition when seen by Glynne in 1859. It was replaced by more fitting lancets in 1868.

Interestingly, Glynne mentions five lancets each on the north and south walls which have been reduced to four each at the restoration.

On the south wall

Window and detail

8Single lancet with stained glass depicting Our Lady with a dove and holding a lily. Below is St John with Our Lady.

Beneath is written (from John 19.27):

FROM THAT HOUR THAT DISCIPLE
TOOK HER UNTO HIS OWN HOME

A commemorative brass plate is on the wall to the east of this window, reading:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF
SOPHIA WHITE
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 10TH 1890 AGED 80 YEARS
THIS WINDOW ERECTED BY HER DAUGHTERS
A A BOOTH AND ELLEN HOLMES AD 1891
Window and detail

9Single lancet with stained glass.

Depicting in top half the Risen Christ; below is an angel speaking to the women in the garden.

A commemorative brass plate is fixed on the cill and reads:

IN MEMORY OF
WILLIAM WHITE OF BABWORTH, WHO DIED APRIL
8TH 1872 AGED 29 YEARS AND WAS BURIED AT
BABWORTH APRIL 13TH 1872. THIS WINDOW
IS PLACED BY HIS BROTHER, SAMUEL WHITE.
Window and some details

10Single lancet with stained glass. This is the village’s War Memorial. At the top is written:

FOR ALL THE SAINTS

WHO FROM THEIR LABOURS REST

Underneath is a building of classical style, perhaps the temple or heavenly Jerusalem and thronging close below a host of angels with St Michael welcoming two saints.

Below is written

Gloria in Excelsis Deo

and depicted below that an angel on a cloud with cloth bearing the words:

THY NAME O JESU

BE FOR EVER BLEST

ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA

(This quotation, along with that at the head of the window, are from the hymn For all the saints.) The window is completed with:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD & IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR FDK.

CLARKE ERNEST HEWITT FRED SMITH MM & BR WHO GAVE

THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR

1914-18 THIS WINDOW IS ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS
South chancel
windows

11Single lancet with plain white diamond quarries.

South aisle

12A three-light window at the east end of the aisle. Decorated with original tracery which Glynne describes as “rather flamboyant.” Glazed with plain white diamond quarries with green border. In the tracery foils is some modern coloured glass. The window is somewhat hidden by the organ.

South aisle windows

13,14
15Three three-light windows of decorated period complete with tracery. Glazed in plain white diamond quarries and green border.

16Two-light window without tracery. Glazed with plain white glass with coloured border of red, yellow and blue. Top point has one small piece of white/green glass similar to the colouring on others.

Tower

17Single lancet with stained glass depicting Jesus with children.

A brass commemoration plate on the cill reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN REMEMBRANCE
OF MRS MARIA OVEREND OF WEST RETFORD HOUSE
WHO DIED 29TH DECEMBER 1896 WHOSE GENEROUS GIFTS
CONTRIBUTED LARGELY TO THE RESTORATION OF THIS
CHURCH IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD MDCCCXCVIII

Vestry

18Three-light window with thirteenth century tracery. Glazed with plain white diamond quarries with green border.

North aisle

One of the
north aisle
windows

19,20
21Three Perpendicular square-headed three-light windows with some modern pieces of coloured glass in the tracery. Rest of windows glazed in usual diamond quarries with green border.

22At east end and the same as the west end window of the aisle.