List of works by Christopher Whall

This is a list of the stained-glass works of Christopher Whall (1849–1924).

Whall's works include:
* Gloucester Cathedral
* War Memorial windows
* Works in Scotland
* Cathedral and minster windows

Works in parish churches

Image:Whall Window Holy Trinity 2.jpg, First and second lights in Whall's four-light traceried window "The Holy Spirit and Pentecost" at Holy Trinity Sloane Street.
Image:Holy Trinity Church Whall 1.jpg, Third and fourth lights in Whall's four-light traceried window "The Holy Spirit and Pentecost" at Holy Trinity Sloane Street.
Image:Whall Window Holy Trinity 3.jpg, View of the complete four-light traceried window "The Holy Spirit and Pentecost" at Holy Trinity Sloane Street.
Image:Whall Window Holy Trinity 4.jpg, Part of Whall's window "The Adoration of the Magi and the Shepherds" at Holy Trinity Sloane Street.
Image:Whall Window Holy Trinity 5.jpg, Part of Whall's window "The Adoration of the Magi and the Shepherds" at Holy Trinity Sloane Street.

Gallery

Image:Bleasby Church.JPG, Window in Bleasby Church. Shown courtesy Mary and Malcolm Stacey.
Image:Marston Window.JPG, Window in St Mary's Marston.
Image:Cape Town Cathedral.jpg, Window in Cape Town Cathedral. Shown courtesy Stewart Harris.
Image:London-Victoria and Albert Museum-Stained glass-01.jpg, "St Chad" by Whall. Held in Victoria and Albert Museum
Image:St Seiriol.jpg, Whall's window in St Seiriol. Shown courtesy Peter Jones
Image:All Saints Brockhampton.jpg, Whall window in All Saints Brockhampton.
Image:Whall-St Christopher.jpg, St Christopher in All Saints, Sproughton. Image shown courtesy Wisbey.
Image:Whall Stained Glass.jpg, Part of "Resurrection" in St Ethelbert, Herringswell, Suffolk. Image shown courtesy Barking Tigs.
Image:St Oswald's Ashbourne.jpg, St Cecilia.St Oswald's Church.Ashbourne. Image courtesy Sue Hasker
Image:St Mary Berry Pomeroy.jpg, Nativity window at St Mary, Berry Pomeroy, Devon.
Image:St Mary Stamford.jpg, Whall's stained glass window in St Mary's Church, Stamford in Lincolnshire. Whall's first independent commission.
Image:Milland Hampshire.jpg, Whall's 1899 window in St Luke's Church. Milland in Hampshire.
Image:Christopher Whall work from window in St Etheldreda's parish church, Hatfield, Herts.jpg, Detail from Whall window in St Ethelreda's Hatfield.
Image:An angel from Whall's Charity in Holy Cross. Sarratt.jpg, Part of Whall's "Charity" in Holy Cross. Sarratt.
Image:Whall work in Ware Hertfordshire Church.jpg, The lower light of the Te Deum window by Christopher Whall, St Mary the Virgin, Ware.
Image:Detail from Te Deum in Ware.jpg, A section of Christopher Whall's Te Deum in St Mary the Virgin, Ware. Shows St Catherine of Alexandria, heading up the Noble Army of Martyrs.
Image:Tree of Jesse .jpg, Tree of Jesse window in Preston, Hertfordshire Church.Image courtesy barking Tigs.
Image:Part of Whall window in Chipping Warden Church.jpg, Part of window in St Peter and St Paul Church.Chipping Warden.Northamptonshire. Image courtesy jmc4-Church Explorer.
Image:Bleasby C Whall window.jpg, Whall window in St Mary's Church. Bleasby.Nottinghamshire. Image shown courtesy Diana Temperley.
Image:Hornby Window by Whall.jpg, War Memorial window in St Mary's Church.Hornby.Yorkshire. Image shown courtesy Dave Webster.
Image:Holy Trinity Wickwar.jpg, Part of window in Holy Trinity Church. Wickwar. South Gloucestershire.Image shown courtesy Keith Gale.
Image:Avening Church 1.jpg, Window in the Church of the Holy Cross.Avening. Gloucestershire. Image courtesy Margaret Barton.
Image:Avening Church 2.jpg, Window in the Church of the Holy Cross.Avening. Gloucestershire.
Image:St Leonard Church Window.JPG, Window in St Leonard, Wollaton, Nottinghamshire.In memory of Henry Charles Russell (1842-1922), Rector of Wollaton 1876-1922.
Image:Whall window in France.jpg, Window in Valescure France with St George and St Michael. Image courtesy Lindsay Benoist.
Image:Southwell 1.JPG, Left hand light of window in Southwell Minster
Image:Southwell 2.JPG, Right hand light of window in Southwell Minster
Image:St_George's_window_St_Andrew's_Church_002.jpg, Window in St Andrew's. Wester under Lizard.
Image:Opus Panel.jpg, Opus panel in St Patrick's Church. Hove. Sussex
Image:Stanton St Quintin.jpg, Window in St Giles' Church Stanton St Quintin
Image:Stanton St Quintin 2.jpg, Another view of Stanton St Quintin window
Image:East Window St Mary's Church Ashby Folville.jpg, East window in St Mary's Church. Ashby Folville

Other works

As stated above, Whall was educated at Rossall School in Lancashire. He returned there in 1891 to execute a stained glass window for the school chapel working together with Louis Davis. The window by Whall and Davis was dedicated to the Reverend W.A.Osborne who was the Headmaster at Rossall for many years and would in fact have been the Headmaster when the young Whall was a pupil at the school.

In 1890 Whall executed a three-light traceried East window for the South Chapel of Dorchester Cemetery.

John Dando Sedding designed St Saviour’s House in Bristol, the building being completed by Henry Wilson. In 1894 Whall executed a window for the quadrangle corridor, this described by Andrew Foyle and Nikolaus Pevsner as "a fine window of the Good Shepherd in a thorny thicket" in their volume ''The Buildings of England. Somerset: North and Bristol''. St Saviour’s House is currently used as a Nursing Home.

Whall designed one of the two windows in the regimental chapel of the old London Woolwich Barracks and when these barracks were closed the windows were moved to St Alban the Martyr Church in Larkhill, Wiltshire. Whall's window included scenes of the old buildings of the Barracks. St Alban the Martyr is a Garrison Church and stands next to the main entrance of the Royal School of Artillery. In Whall's own description of the window, held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, he states that the subject of the window is Peace. The window is of five lights and the central light shows Christ in His Mother's arms, surrounded by His Heavenly Court of Cherubim and Seraphim, with Michael and Gabriel in support. Christ blesses the world from His Throne, to which is fixed the olive branch which is the Sceptre of His Kingdom and on which sits the dove with the olive leaf, the symbol of reconciliation. Beneath the Manger Cradle a child angel plays upon a dulcimer. A bodyguard of honour is grouped around the Throne, composed of those old warriors of the past who in their day have done their duty; while at its foot those who are carrying on the task kneel in worship. Another light shows the ruin and desolation of war with a depiction of Ypres in flames. St George stands in the breach and a young trumpeter is ready to sound the note of battle. Below is the kneeling figure of General Borgard, the "Father of the Regiment" and one of Marlborough's officers of artillery. In another light Whall depicts the era of Waterloo and in another he turns to the Crimea. In the lower portion of these two lights are grouped types of the present-day regiments in worship. Whall depicts the Field Service (with Mons ribbon and service stripes), the Padre, the Parade uniform and the Indian Service. The fifth and final light commemorates the Alliances of the late war with depictions of a French and Belgian soldier. These are placed under the patronage of the glorious Crusader, St Louis (Louis IX of France.) In the background is the Sainte Chapelle and at the base of the window is a view of the Royal Military Academy itself and the motto ''Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt''.

There were instances where Whall was commissioned to submit designs for windows but in the event the commissions came to nought.
In 1913 for example, Whall was asked to produce a scheme for five windows for the fifteenth century Lady Chapel of Christchurch Priory, but the windows were never made. There was opposition to Whall's windows on architectural/antiquarian grounds as his proposal involved the removal of the existing Victorian East window and structural changes to the half-windows on the North and South sides. Another such case involved six side windows for the Kensington Borough Cemetery Chapel at Hanwell. All six side windows were to represent Biblical incidents prophetic of the Resurrection. It is not known why the commission was not carried out.

Lost works

*In the volume ''West Kent and The Weald'', Pevsner refers to some Whall stained glass in the Tonbridge School Chapel. The windows were lost in the 1988 fire which destroyed much of the chapel. Had these windows survived they would undoubtedly be ranged along with those at Holy Trinity Sloane Street and Gloucester Cathedral as Whall's best works. St Augustine's Chapel at Tonbridge School was built between 1900 and 1909 and the headmaster at that time, Rev. Charles Tancock, D.D., had been headmaster at Rossall School when Whall worked on a window there. His daughter, Rachel Tancock, was to become one of Whall's students. Whall's East window in St Augustine's was a complex allegory of Redemption through Incarnation. Whall also designed two windows for the Sanctuary, these on the theme of Judgement. It was intended that the chapel would also have a series of windows representing the lives of English and Scottish patron saints and Whall designed what was known as the Welldon memorial window which depicted St Andrew, his life and his works. This window, in memory of Dr Welldon who was a former headmaster, includes the school motto "Deus dat incrementum", a motto chosen by Welldon. Another such window was what was to be known as the Graham memorial window, this depicting St Margaret of Scotland. In the central panel St Margaret holds in her right hand the Black Cross which she brought with her to Scotland, and which was the origin of "Holy Rood". This window commemorated Isabella Graham, the wife and mother of former Tonbridge pupils. The next such window, the South African War Memorial window, was of three-lights, and represented St George of Cappadocia and incidents from his life. This window includes the motto of the Skinners Company "In Christo Fratres". This series of windows featuring patron saints was continued in later years by Karl Parsons, Lilian Pocock and Rachel Tancock, all of whom had studied under Whall. Her best known work is the stained glass window in St Botolph's Church, Cambridge.The Buildings of England:West Kent and The Weald..information partly taken from Whall & Whall Limited booklet "Stained Glass Windows in Tonbridge School Chapel", privately published circa 1905 and held at the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert under reference 89.K.172 Box and partly from the exhibition catalogue issued by the William Morris Gallery for the Christopher Whall exhibition 17 November 1979 to 3 February 1980.
*The same Pevsner volume refers to work by Whall in All Saints Church, Swanscombe, Kent. This Norman Shaw designed church, dates from 1893, opened in 1895 but was closed in 1971 and converted to apartments. The Whall window may still be intact but within the apartment block.
*Whall completed a Great War memorial window in 1918 for St Mark's Church in Leeds. It shows the stoning of Stephen, the first Christian martyr. The window commemorates Second Lieutenant Cecil Wellesley Ward, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, elder son of the Rev George Nussey Ward of Askham Bryan near York. He was killed in action in 1917 during the First World War. Although closed between 2001 - 2014, this church has now been restored by Gateway Church, Leeds as a place of worship and community use.

Notes

Please see Peter Cormack, Arts & Crafts Stained Glass (Yale University Press, 2015)

References

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