Jane Gray (b.1931)

St Ambrose Church, Leyland, Design for Stained Glass Window (1980)

Watercolour

11.5 x 4.5 cm

Studio label verso.

The site of St Ambrose Church, Leyland, originally lay in the parish of St. Andrew’s Leyland; however, after a 37% population increase in the town caused by the coming of the railways and industrialisation in the 1870’s, the Vicar of St. Andrews decided to build a chapel of ease to St. Andrews. The church was rebuilt on the northern edge of the town in 1880. This window features symbols of St Ambrose and was installed in the church in 1982.

Provenance: the artist’s studio sale.

Literature: Jane Gray, Playing with Rainbows. (Shropshire: Ellingham Press, 2011), p.76.

Condition: very good.

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