WW1 Memorial Stained Glass Window - St. Peter Ad Vincula - Stoke, Stoke-on- Trent, Staffordshire.
N 53° 00.242 W 002° 10.890
30U E 554924 N 5873032
This World War 1 memorial window is located in the Peace Chapel in the Minster Church of St.Peter Ad Vincula in Stoke.
Waymark Code: WMV6M4
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/04/2017
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The memorial window in the Peace Chapel in Stoke Minster has now been repaired with a grant of £9,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Children from St Peter’s academy did research into the origins of the window and created a exhibition which is now on display in the narthex at Stoke Minster. The restored window was rededicated by Rt Rev Geoff Annas, bishop of Stafford, on Sunday 3rd August at a special Requiem Eucharist in the presence of the Lord Mayor of Stoke, HLFNL_2747 logothe Lord Lieutenant,.high sheriff and a congregation of some 220 people. As part of the service poems from this era were read, and Ken Bagnall shared the moving story of his grandfather who was gassed during the Great War. (
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The Memorial window was designed by Gordon Mitchell Forsyth (GMF) (1879-1952). He was highly influenced in his stained glass window design by the Arts & Crafts movement. The movement, originally led by John Ruskin and William Morris, taught that the separation of design from the act of making was aesthetically damaging. Students and church parishioners (their initials can be seen in the window) were trained to create the window and it was completed in 1923.The window was dedicated on 10th November 1923, and unveiled by General Sir Walter Congreve. The Staffordshire Sentinel reported on 12th November that: 340 men of the parish of St Peter’s Stoke fell in the war. (
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This memorial window was beautifully cleaned and restored by Dennis Holgate. St Peter’s Academy met with the Restorer, as part of their Memorial Project.
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