This is as beautiful a piece of Victorian stained-glass as you'll find anywhere. The artist is Edward Burne-Jones, the great Pre-Raphaelite painter. When the sun shines through it, I could look at it for hours.
I am continually stunned how much work of great beauty is hidden away in our country churches.
Ingestre Church - where you'll find this window - is however more famous for its architecture and its church furniture. It's seventeenth cenury, and (supposedly) was designed by Christopher Wren.
The friends of the church do a great job in raising funds to maintain it - and to keep it open for the public to look round.
I'm begining to recognise Pre-Raphalite after seeing some of William Morris's work at Kelmscott. Stunning looking window.
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