Stained glass design for Greenham church, Berkshire, pen and ink mounted on card, Burlison & Grylls, England, 1921

Design of two narrow, window lights to be set within a sculptured embrasure between two war memorial tablets, for Greenham church, the left one depicting a crucifix on a altar between lit candles against a red background and the right one shows a soldier knight kneeling before the altar while above him hover two angels bearing a crown. The designs are on two sheets of paper cut to the exact dimensions of the designs. They are drawn in pen and ink and painted in watercolour and mounted on a sheet of cream-coloured rectangular card.

Given by The Ashmolean Museum from the estate of the late Brian Miller

This stained glass design (one of 32) was in the collection of the late B.D.H. Miller who bequeathed them to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Timothy Wilson, Keeper of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum gave them to the Victoria and Albert Museum.


The designs were lot 320 in the sale of the contents of Towne Furlong Farm, Phillips, Oxford, sales catalogue, Thursday, 13 June 1991.

The design is for a window in Greenham church, Berkshire.


Peter Moore, great grandson of Thomas John Grylls (Moore's maternal great grandfather) stated that the window containing a soldier knight, beneath angels bearing a crown, is set within a sculptured embrasure between war memorial tablets.

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