Corpus of Percy Bacon

Stained Glass of Percy Bacon & Brothers

Boscombe, St Andrew's,

Dorset

St Andrew's Boscombe; Percy Bacon & Brothers

South Aisle West. 1912. Christ Blessing Children.
This window forms a pair with it's counterpart in the west of the north aisle.

North Aisle West. 1912.

South Aisle West. 1912. Detail.

South Aisle West. 1911. Christ Blessing Children..

South Aisle West: 1912. Christ Blessing Children.

Posted 04 February 2023.

Like the great west window, this one is only visible in full from the first floor of the boxed-in west of the nave. Sadly it is partially obscurred now by a rail and glass barrier installed to prevent inadvertant damage, as it's base is level with the new floor. The window is of three unadorned lights with simple tracery and depicts Christ blessing children. The window was almost certainly not painted by Percy Bacon himself, and the style is so different from Bacon's other works illustrating this subject (e.g. Mickleham, Surrey, Repton, Derbyshire, and St Wenn (SA1), Cornwall) that it is likely he didn't pen the cartoon either. Unlike those windows there are no elaborate niches, the lights being edged simply with rectangular white quarries, and the background is filled with a simple floral motif rather than naturalistic landscapes. Similarly the larger of the tracery lights are filled with lilly and rose motifs.

The dedication reads:

To the priase and Glory of God, and in loving memory of Colonel Sanford G Treveeke Scobell, called to the high life June 18th 1912, this window is given by his affectionate sister Frances Sanford Crawford, Saint Michael and All Angels. A.D. 1912.

The window is similar in style to that in the west of the north aisle with which it forms a pair. This was also given by F. S. Crawford in 1912.

The window is unsigned.

South Aisle 4. 1911. Visible only from the outside..

South Aisle 4: 1911. Presentation, Nativity, Annunciation.

Posted 28 January 2023.

This window is sadly only visible from the outside, it having been covered with a wall as part of the modifications to the west end of the nave. Insensitive modifications such as we see at St Andrew's are, unfortunately, all too common. The window was unveiled on 30^th July 1911.¹

The Bournemouth Graphic reporting on the unveiling described the window thus:

The most westerly window in the south aisle of St Andrew's Church, has been filled with stained glass, and was unveiled on July 30th. It illustrates the beginning of Our Lord's life on earth, and consists of three panels ; the right hand light contains a representation of the Annunciation of the message of the Incarnation by the Archangel St. Gabriel, to the Blessed Virgin; "Hail thou that art highly favoured " ; the treatment is suggested by the great picture of Guido Reni Guido reni, Annunciazione, circa 1629.
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, in the Quirinal at Rome; the Virgin is kneeling in a vaulted interior, open at the back, showing sky and verdure, with the Holy Dove descending upon her - at her feet is a book of prayers; the angel with one hand pointing toward Heaven, holds in the other a lily, the emblem of purity. The centre light is filled with a tableau of Nativity, which without being a copy, is founded upon a picture by Correggio, in the Dresden Gallery—the rough stable—the manger—the breaking dawn over the mountains— and the luminous sky are all there, while above hover two richly garbed angels holding the Star of Bethlehem, which pours its rays upon the scene below. The third light represents the Presentation in the Temple, the Blessed Virgin kneeling, and St. Joseph leaning on his staff, offer a basket of doves, while the Prophet Simeon holds the infant Saviour in his arms while uttering the pathetic words—" Lord now lettest Thou Thy Servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy Salvation." These pictures are surrounded by elaborate architectural tabernacle work in silvery glass. In the bases are shields upon which are depicted the Lamb of God, wheat and grapes, typical of the Sacrifice on the Cross, and the Holy Eucharist, whereby the benefits of Christ's Passion are communicated to his followers. This beautiful work of art is presented to the church by Mrs. Crawford, of Shalden Grange, and was executed by Percy Bacon and Brothers, of London, who have done all the glass in the church, and whose work, in this department of art, is so well known all over the country. Mrs. Crawford, the church, and the artists are to be congratulated upon a real work of art.

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Bournemouth Graphic - Friday 04 August 1911, p4.

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