Jonah Window

[poliphilo]

Earnley is an incident in the largely characterless sprawl of seaside homes along the Sussex coast. Only it has an old church...

13th century....



And the old church contains a rather lovely modern window (dedicated 1987) which was given in memory of the artist Yvonne Hudson Rusbridge. It shows Jonah in the belly of the great fish accompanied by mer-people blowing horns, while above them the Spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters. .



Here's a close up of one of the mermen



And here's Jonah



The window was made by P Soderberg, using Hudson Rusbridge's own designs.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm a fan of 20th century stained glass. I don't think the Victorians got it right, but the modern movement allowed artists to play around with primitivism and abstraction and the best modern glass (Chagall for instance) is as good as anything the Middle Ages produced.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Agreed. The stained glass in one the local Episcopal churches is Tiffany and quite nice. Victorian glass is often immediately recognizable as such. It's its own thing, I suppose, but I don't care for it either.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Tiffany's work is very distinctive. I haven't seen enough of it to be sure whether I really like it or not.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

For the stinky little mill town in which this installation resides, it's a treasure. The rector's son told me the insurers were at a loss to even begin to put a price on it.