Stained Glass - Church of St. Margaret, Clenchwarton, Kings Lynn, Norfolk
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greysman
N 52° 45.365 E 000° 21.219
31U E 321419 N 5848421
A nice memorial east window in this small C14th village church, plus memorial glass in the south chancel.
Waymark Code: WMY2VD
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/09/2018
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This small parish church is of an aisleless construction and has a C14th brick west tower, not common even in Norfolk, a Perpendicular nave of carstone and ragstone with ashlar dressings and a much later chancel, 1864, built of carstone, ashlar and brick, now Grade II* listed. The roofs are lead covered.
There is Victorian stained glass in the east window by Charles A.Gibbs full of vibrant colours showing the Adoration, Crucifixion and Ascension of Our Lord with lots of intertwining foliage, eight angels with various symbols complete the window above the rail. Beneath the images of Christ are texts; They saw the young child with Mary his mother; It is finished; And he lifted up his hands and blessed them. At the bottom of the window across the three lights are; Gloria in Excelsis Deo; Posuit George Grogan M.A. MDCCCLXIII; Huius Ecclesiae Curae Incumbens. Tr Glory to God in the Highest, placed in memory of George Grogan M.A., 1863, Curate of this Church.
In the next window south is stained glass depicting St.Margaret and St.Catharine placed here in 1906. The images have been described as Amazonian by Simon Knott in his web site 'Churches of East Anglia: Norfolk' but they are rather good and giving a light and airy feel to the chancel. The dedication reads:- 'Dedicated to the Glory of God and in Memory of George and Mary Ann Tipple and of Henry and William their sons by Charles Tipple October 1906.' Above the rail are angels with musical instruments and a crown.
Words variously from British Listed Buildings, Pevsner's Norfolk Buildings, Simon Knott's 'Churches of East Anglia: Norfolk', amended and added to with own on-site observations.
Co-ordinates are for the south porch.