Venetian glass mosaics

The mosaics depict, from left to right, (1) Baptism of Christ, (2) the Agony in the Garden, (3) the Crucifixion, (4) the Empty Tomb and (5) the meeting with Mary Magdalene in the Garden. 

The three central ones were given in memory of John and Phoebe Knight by their three sons. John Knight had been one of Bryan King's staunchest supporters thirty years earlier; in 1879 King wrote, from Avebury, Well!  'Time and I against any two!' If I had proposed in my time to have inserted a simple cross in place of the proposed crucifix, I should have been burnt alive. But seriously I do most heartily congratulate you and your brothers on this result. Your father and mother will now be the means, through their children, of preaching more effectually than by any words to generations and generations of poor souls the precieless truth of Jesus Christ and Him crucified! In one generation the culture had changed, and the 'innovations' that provoked rioting no longer excited comment.) 

The one on the left was given by T.M. Fairclough in memory of his uncle John Benton, who died in 1841; and the one on the right by Richard Foster to commemorate his parents' marriage in 1805. 

[Pictures by permission of Matthew Andrews]

(1) The Baptism of Christ	(2) The Agony in the Garden - two details
(3) The Crucifixion
(4) The Empty Tomb	(5) Mary Magdalene

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