West window

On your left as you enter the church is the great West Window. It illustrates teachings from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapters 5 to 7. Most of the texts are fairly easy to read, but you may strain to see the one at the top: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God”. The window is in four panels or lancets with pointed arches, and it is a good illustration of how the architect imitated the Early English gothic style. The glass is from the studio of Heaton, Butler and Bayne in London, and dates from about 1900. This leading manufacturer of Gothic revival glass, whose work can be seen in churches across the UK, the US and the former British Empire, supplied most of the glass for the church, but in several stages. The East Window is the earliest, followed by the stained glass of the nave and the West Window. We can imagine All Saints’ in its early decades gradually filling with coloured light.

From beside the West Window walk straight ahead to view the baptistry.