A good opportunity for local artists - lots of inspiration to be found in the work of #TrenaCox of #Chester

Details of Pinkie Maclure #StainedGlass at The Glass Heart at Two Temple Place
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Preparing family activities for the #TrenaCox exhibition at Chester Cathedral later this year - a little painting experiment!

St Werburgh, patron saint of Chester, for her feast day.
By #TrenaCox of #Chester
With her pilgrim badge - explained here by Thomas Pickles
tinyurl.com/Werburgh
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From Caldy Church, Wirral & St Werburgh, Chester

Simon Eardley Thomas Pickles BSMGP CWAC Museums Chester Cathedral THE Chester Tour Chester Civic Trust ChesterArchSoc Malcolm Stoneman Cheshire Local History Association Chester Cathedral Works Department The earliest depiction of St Werburgh by #TrenaCox I am aware of (1929) and a firm favourite. #Ince

#Epiphany - the Magi depicted by #TrenaCox of #Chester
A selection of images from her long career - full of pattern and colour!
#StainedGlassEveryday
In advance of #StainedGlassSunday BSMGP #Epiphany #TheTrenaCoxProject

2023 offered many opportunities to see beautiful stained glass - making new friends along the way - excited for more adventures in 2024!
Here are just a few of the remarkable examples I saw this year.
#StainedGlassEveryday
#StainedGlassSunday
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👀 St Stephen’s church, #Prenton #Wirral

Surprised to see #Ely Cathedral & #StEtheldreda here.

Beautiful #TrenaCox stained glass.

We are looking forward to learning more about this artist in Aleta Doran ✨’s exhibition in 2024.

#StainedGlassSunday

#HappyNewYear to all

For the Feast of the Holy Innocents - the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt.
By #TrenaCox of #Chester 1960
All Saints, Daresbury - a beautiful church which is open daily

daresburycofe.org.uk

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For the Feast of St Thomas of Canterbury.
Depicted alongside King Henry II by #TrenaCox of #Chester
At the SW corner of the cloister of Chester Cathedral
1926
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Merry Christmas! 🎄💫

A beautiful #Nativity illumination I saw at the Weston Library, Oxford, in the ‘Gifts and Books’ exhibition. It has incredibly shiny gold leaf!

MS. Arm. d. 13. New Julfa, Isfahan, Iran, 1609
#MedievalMonday #ManuscriptsMonday

For the Feast of Saint Nicholas. The saint and a detail of the boys in the barrel - from Holy Trinity, Northwich. By #TrenaCox of #Chester .
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#StainedGlass Everyday
🇪🇺 💚 Andy Scargill 💙 🇺🇦

This year even my Christmas Tree has a #TrenaCox theme!

Merry Christmas - wishing you peace and hope

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Thank you to everyone who has supported and encouraged me this year - your help has been invaluable and very much appreciated!

Particularly Anastasia Doran Emily Lanigan-Palotai (She/Her) Friends of the Countess of Chester Country Park

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In a letter written in 1949, #TrenaCox of #Chester fondly recalled a Christmas Tree she had seen outside Stanley Palace during a snowy winter in the 1930s. Its colourful lights had twinkled from Christmas Eve till Twelfth Night.
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Interesting war memorial (1920) from St Mary and St Helen, Neston for #StainedGlassSunday
St Michael & St George
Designed by Bernard Rice and made by Williams, Gamon & Co of #Chester - a firm later associated with #TrenaCox .
Interesting church - open daily
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Details from the Powell’s opus sectile reredos at All Saints, Saughall, #Cheshire #TilesOnTuesday

Following the fascinating Stained Glass Museum talk about Powell & Sons’ opus sectile work, today I visited All Saints, Saughall, #Cheshire to see this beautiful reredos. Thanks to Simon Eardley for help in arranging this visit. Detail photos ⬇️
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