Memorial Window - There Stood By Me This Night the Angle of God

Epping Presbyterian Church
Rawson & Bridge Street, Epping
New South Wales - Australia

Commissioned 1991 by Margaret Knight

Description: Memorial Window
Triple painted and fired French and German antique glass. Lead came, solder; mild steel ‘T’ section, Mild steel bar

There Stood By Me This Night the Angle of God
Upper: Gothic Pediment & Background
Centre: Angel giving succor to kneeling mother cradling child
Lower: Gothic Pediment, Waratahs, Memorial Inscription

Dimensions: Height 2.4 m
Width 0.6 m

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Detail

Detail

External view of church from west Rawson St

Stylistic Cohesion

The Existing Stained Glass Windows
Epping Presbyterian Church’s stained glass windows were created by various Australian studios and artists and like many churches in metropolitan Sydney and throughout the state of NSW, the variety of windows illustrates the progressive generations of glass artists working in Sydney. There are multiple windows from the studio of John Ashwin & Co - Dixon Street Sydney - the earliest dating from the first halve of the nineteenth century. The ‘Light of the World’ window (above left) is a memorial in memory of David and Ann Nichols – founding members of the congregation and is no doubt inspired by the Holman Hunt painting which became popular and copied throughout the British Empire during the first part of the nineteenth century. The central scene is boarded by a stylized gothic architectural pediment and stylized flowers.

The adjacent window (above right) is also John Ashwin & Company and follows a similar design layout. A memorial window for Herbert Ernest Leslie Minkie who died 6.4 .1950; this window was most probably painted by John Radecki (1865 - 1955), a European immigrant who worked for Ashwin & Co and later became chief designer and proprietor after 1920. There is another window on the western wall signed by Radecki. His style is unmistakable. For more information on John Radecki click here

Other windows in the church include a pair of windows possibly by Paddy Robinson created in the 1970 -1980s and two windows by Rodney Marshall.

Design Brief for the new stained glass window
The proposed new window was to be sited adjacent to existing windows created by Radecki. The church committee requested the new window - match as closely as possible in style - the existing early 19th century stained glass windows. Care was taken to duplicate as far as possible, the architectural detail, composition, painting style and detail characteristic of Radecki’s work.