Saintly Mothers
The left of three three-light windows depicting women saints made in 1928 by James Powell & Sons Whitefriars, England. The other two windows depict virgin martyrs and saints who showed their faith in public deeds.
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 ecclieastical stained glass. The designs for windows were often reused from earlier commissions, and that is the case with one of the windows above. St. Elizabeth was designed by James Hogan and had been used before at Kings Pyon, 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 Stamford in 1928 and in subsequent years.
Research in the archives of James Powell & Sons was done by Dr. Dennis Hadley of Reading, Great Britain.