RVW Memorial Window
"A new window to celebrate RVW's contribution is a worthy ambition" - Rector
Stained Glass Artist
The renowned stained-glass artist, Tom Denny was commissioned to design and make a new window for All Saints' Church, Down Ampney
to commemorate the 150th Anniversary
of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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The new window has been placed in the Sanctuary. Design work began in earnest in January 2022; and the window was installed in December 2022.
Tom Denny writes:
"Most of my windows are in churches, and their themes are scriptural. Several new projects, however, have also been celebrations or commemorations of remarkable people, incorporating their relationship with a particular place and landscape."
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Hear Tom Denny talk about his window:
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Testamonials
“The truth is, God comes to us in glimpses, in small snatches of light and understanding - only occasionally are we granted a ‘blinding flash’. In his stained glass Thomas Denny gives us both these approaches.”
The Very Reverend Michael Tavinor
“It is as if you are being offered a choice between two temporal realities, the deep journey or present pleasures. Thomas Denny’s work provides both, a rare and visceral encounter with the numinous here and now.”
Mark Cazalet
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(Denny’s work) “is lovingly done, at once entirely contemporary yet in full conformity with the traditional, determining disciplines of the craft”
William Packer
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