Cuthbert recorded on glass

THIS is a photograph of the full scale working drawing of a new stained glass window of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne which was dedicated by the Abbot of Downside the Rt Revd John Roberts at the church of St Cuthbert, Holcombe near Radstock on the 1300th anniversary of the death of the Saint.
Of all the Celtic English Saints, Cuthbert of Lindisfarne is undoubtedly the greatest and also the most immediately accessible to us by reason of the simplicity of his life and the warmth and charm of his personality.
To him perhaps more than to any other can be attributed the general acceptance of the reconcilliation of the Celtic Church to the Roman obedience brought about at the Synod of Whitby.
Eleven years after his death his body was found to be fresh and incorrupt and so it remained throughout the following four centuries until it came to its final resting place at Durham.
One of the first great building projects of the Norman Conquerors was the magnificent Cathedral at Durham built specifically to enclose the shrine of the most widely loved Saint of the early Middle Ages.
The window was commissioned by Dom Gervase Murray-Bligh OSB Parish Priest.
of Holcombe and a Housemaster at Downside.
Among the boys in his house is the son of the artist John Redvers PS internationally known Gloucestershire based portrait painter whose first stained glass window design this is.
In it he says he has tried to convey the freshness, simplicity and intensity, not only of the Saint but of the Northumbrian coastal region from which his ministry grew and where in his tiny hermitage on the Fame Islands, as Cuthbert himself said he had "fought his battle for the Lord."
The glass was cut and the window constructed by Roy Youngs, for many years a close assistant of Sir Ninian Comper. JOHN CONNELLY died peacefully in his home in Roehampton in his 93rd year. One of the first Catholic Probation Officers appointed by the Home Office in London in 1928, he subsequently became Senior Probation Officer in south west London until his retirement in 1960.
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