Theodora Salusbury (1875–1956) was an artist and craftswoman in the Arts & Crafts-style. After training with some of the best artists in the field, she worked as a

stained glass Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...

artist at her studios in Cornwall and London. Salusbury's windows would be leaded up by Lowndes & Drury. Dating mostly from between the two World Wars, the windows were destined for nearly thirty churches in England and Wales, several of them in

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire ...

, Salusbury's home county. The impact of Salusbury's windows comes through her use of colour and her representation of the figures she portrayed. Most of her work bears her signature, a peacock.

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* McWhirr, A. (1999). ''Century to millennium: St James the Greater, Leicester, 1899–1999''. Leicester: PCC of St James the Greater. * Maltby, G & Loutit, A. (2018). ''Theodora Salusbury 1875–1956 Stained Glass Artist.'' . 1875 births 1956 deaths 20th-century English women artists English stained glass artists and manufacturers People from Leicester {{England-artist-stub