Left: Whole window. Right: Closer view of the top of the panels.
Scenes from the Book of Revelation in St Peter's, Hinton Road, Bournemouth. Designed by Clayton and Bell. This four-light window is in the north of the north-west transept, and is in memory of the Anglo-Catholic vicar, the Reverend Alexander Morden Bennett (1808-1880), who had the church greatly extended, and died just before the work was finished: "it was not till after his death that the last touch was put by the completion of the spire" (Street 260).
The window illustrates various chapters of Revelation, including (from left to right above) the final one, "Let him that is athirst, come..." (Rev. 22, 16-20); "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power..." (Rev. 5, 12-14); "And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow..." Rev. 6, 1-8); "Hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads... (Rev. 7, 3-12). The Rev. Bennett was, we are told, a man of "remarkable energy" (Mate 242), and this large and dramatic window is a fine tribute to him.
Related Material
- St Peter's, Bournemouth, with links to other stained glass windows there
- St Peter's, Bournemouth (Chancel and Sanctuary, Keble Chapel and Fittings)
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Bibliography
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Jenkins, Simon. England's Thousand Best Churches. Rev. ed. London: Penguin, 2009.
Mate, Charles Henry. Bournemouth: 1810-1910. The History of a Modern Health and Pleasure Resort. Bournemouth: Messrs W. Mate & Sons, 1910. Internet Archive. Contributed by Cornell University Library. Web. 4 May 2020.
Street, Arthur Edmund. Memoir of George Edmund Street RA, 1824-1881. London: John Murray, 1888. Internet Archive. Contributed by the Getty Research Institute. Web. 5 May 2020.
Created 4 May 2020