Today we bring you the sketches for one of our stained glass windows, designed by arts and crafts artist Edward Burne-Jones. He worked together with William Morris who chose the colours and the physical glass.
While the window is a triumph, it appears Burne-Jones may not have relished the experience of working with the Scottish clergy to produce the work, as he notes in his journal:
‘If I charged for the trouble and annoyance I experienced in the long correspondence with the clergy of Scotland, I should treble the laughable trifle which I was set down as compensation for my toil. However, not a businessman, £150 be it then and let us end the discussion. You have the results of my brains, the brains themselves I still retain’.
The Burn Jones window features in the upper panels the crossing of the Jordan, and in the lower panels the figures of Ruth, Miriam and Jephtah’s daughter.
