East Window at St. John’s
Thomas Denny East Window, 2025 at St. John’s Tisbury, Wiltshire (found here ) “The theme of the window is ‘seeing’ and this is interpreted as seeing the glory of God, and the epiphanies in ordinary and extraordinary moments in life.” Thomas Denny writes: “This is expressed in the centre of the window in the story of the Transfiguration of Christ, divinity seen amongst us. Various other figures, and creatures, approach this central group: ‘ all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God ’ [Isaiah 52:10]. In the inner right-hand light a couple also stands on the hill of transfiguration, looking both at what is happening near to them as well as out over a vast plain, and finding revelations there too; two further figures, a father and son, are themselves ‘ in a mountain, seeing the land, what it is ’ [Numbers 13: 17, 18]. Landscape recurs throughout: the continuous horizon suggestive of Salisbury Plain, scattered with clumps of trees and barrows. Elsewhere, two young women ‘...
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