Object Description
An antique Hardman & Co ecclesiastical stained glass panels depicting a king on his knees holding a thurible.
Competently painted, this dramatic stained glass window dates to 1889, once a part of an impressive larger window named ‘Epistle for All Saints Day’ reclaimed from the south transept of All Saints Emscote church, Warwick.
The inscription at the foot of the window is a part of the quote displayed across the various panels making up the larger window, that reads ‘there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse & a branch shall grow out of his roots.’
The thurible held by the king is a religious medium used to connect the earthly and divine realms – an ode to the church in which it came from.
This is just one of eight stained and hand painted panels that once made this striking church window.
Now a stunning and detailed interior feature, the vivid colours of this panel would look striking flooded with daylight in a traditional home, a sympathetically decorated converted chapel or ecclesiastical building.
Hardman & Co
Renowned makers Hardman & Co made Birmingham a popular spot for stained glass operating between 1838 and 2008 as a world-leading stained-glass manufacturer.
Founder John Hardman led the company to be one of the country’s leading manufacturers in the 19th and 20th century.
They went on to create windows for churches and houses all over the world. Most of the company’s windows were made for buildings in Britain and Ireland.
Many also went overseas to countries which were then part of the British Empire such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Others also went to the USA.
Some windows went to churches in big cities while others went to tiny settlements.
Many of Hardman & Co’s records and designs are now divided between the Library of Birmingham and Birmingham Museums Trust.