[119144] All Saints, Kirby Underdale : Viscount Halifax Window

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[119144] All Saints, Kirby Underdale : Viscount Halifax Window
[119144] All Saints, Kirby Underdale : Viscount Halifax Window

All Saints, Kirby Underdale, East Yorkshire.
Viscount Halifax Memorial Window, 1937.
By Frederick Charles Eden (1864-1944).
Detail : The central figure of Christ.

To the the glory of God and in memory of Charles 2nd Viscount Halifax born June 7th 1839 died January 19th 1934 RIP.

This window shows Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier (1851-1926) kneeling opposite Charles Lindley Wood (1839-1934), 2nd Viscount Halifax.

The central figure of Christ, depicted in the attitude of blessing, with the words that they all may be one recalls the Conversations at Malines in Belgium 1921-25, where the Cardinal and Lord Halifax sought ways toward the reconciliation of the Roman Catholic church with the Anglican communion.

Two days before the Cardinal died, Lord Halifax visited him in Brussels. In a message to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Mercier spoke of the search for unity : "It is the supreme wish of Christ ; the wish of the Sovereign Pontiff ; it is mine, it is yours. May it be realised in its fulness." He then gave to Lord Halifax his episcopal ring, which was later set above the base of a chalice and given to York Minster for use on the anniversaries of the deaths of the Cardinal and Lord Halifax, and on St Peter's day.

In the left light of the window, Lord Halifax in his peer's robes, kneels at a desk with an open book, his Coat of Arms and Coronet above.

In the right light, Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, kneels in a similar position wearing a green cope and red skull cap, his mitre on the ground, with the Arms of his See and his Cardinal's Hat, above.

In the tracery of the window are St Paul with the sword and St Peter with the keys. Above all is the Dove, the emblem of the Holy Spirit.

Frederick Charles Eden was an architect and a pupil of William Butterfield and of George Frederick Bodley. He often designed the glass and other fittings for his own buildings and in 1910 began making his own windows.

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Taken on: May 13, 2010
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