Stained Glass Windows, St Edmund's Church - Southwold, Suffolk
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N 52° 19.695 E 001° 40.739
31U E 409978 N 5798369
All of the church's medieval glass was destroyed by William Dowsing in 1644; the only stained glass windows in the church are the east windows over the altar (1954, by Sir Ninian Comper) and the west window below the grand tower.
Waymark Code: WMKXVK
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/10/2014
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All of the church's medieval glass was destroyed by William Dowsing in 1644; the only stained glass windows in the church are the east windows over the altar (1954, by Sir Ninian Comper) and the west window below the grand tower.
In World War 2 the church was narrowly missed by a German bomb that destroyed houses in the nearby Hollyhock Square. The bomb did not do much damage to the building itself but blew out most of the windows - another reason why the church has very little stained glass.