East window: The Crucifixion, The Blessed Virgin and St. John on each
side, The Agony, Bearing the Cross, and the Scourging.
The side window of the Sanctuary has St. Stephen and St. John the
Baptist as the nearest Martyrs to our Lord, both before and after
Him, and their martyrdoms underneath.
The south-east window: The Resurrection, with soldiers at the
Sepulchre. St. Peter and St. Paul on each side.
The south chancel windows: The Four Evangelists; under, St. Luke, the
Disciples at Emmaus; under, St. John, he and St. Peter at the
Sepulchre.
The three-light south window: St. James the Less, first Bishop of
Jerusalem; underneath, the Council in Acts x. 6. At his side two
successors of the Apostles, St. Clement of Rome, Phil. iv. 3, and St.
Dionysius of Athens, Acts xvii. 34, to show how the Church is built
upon the Apostles.
In the west window, the Last Judgment, with St. Michael with his
scales, and answering to Adam and Noah in the west window of the
north aisle; and as a repentance window, St. Peter and St. Mary
Magdalene in the west of the south aisle. In the two windows close
to the font, St. Philip and Nicodemus, for baptism.
So were carried out the lines in the _Lyra Innocentium_.
The Saints are there the Living Dead,
The mourners glad and strong;
This sacred floor their quiet bed,
Their beams from every window shed
Their voice in every song.
The clerestory windows were put in somewhat later, on finding that the
church was dark, and Mr. Keble wished to have the children mentioned in
Scripture, in outline upon them, but this was not carried out.
It was first thought probable that readers of the _Christian Year_ and
the _Lyra Innocentium_ might have presented these stained windows, but
the plan fell through, and the only others actually given were the
repentance window, representing St. Peter and St. Mary Magdalene, by Mr.
Harrison. Two were paid for by special offertories, and the rest were
finally given by Mr. Keble, as the sums came in from his published
writings.
[Picture: Hursley Vicarage and Church]
The spire, completing the work, was added to the ancient tower by Sir
William Heathcote.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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