Saints Who Showed Their Faith in Public Deeds
The right of three three-light windows depicting women saints made in 1928 by James Powell & Sons Whitefriars, England. The other two windows depict saintly mothers and virgin martyrs.
These windows at St. John's Episcopal Church in Stamford, Connecticut, USA, were commissioned in November, 1928, from the studios of James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars), England. The studio was one of the most important manufacturers of glass and suppliers of ecclesiastical stained glass. The designs for windows were often reused from earlier commissions, and that is the case with two of the windows above. St. Helena, designed by James Hogan, was used earlier in Preston. St. Joan, also designed by James Hogan, was used before at Kidderminster. Elizabeth of Hungary was designed by Harry Stammers who started his own stained glass studio in the 1940s and was very successful in England. The records for the James Powell & Sons studios are in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Archive of Art and Design, Blythe Road, W. Kensington, London, and include the order books and the diaries of James Hogan (1883-1948), Whitefriars' chief window designer and Art Director in the period between the world wars. He visited St. John's in Stamford in 1928 and in subsequent years.