Tom Denny, Millennium window (2000), Church of All Saints, Bolton Percy, N Yorkshire.

Photo: James Davies

Tom Denny, detail of Millennium window (2000), Church of All Saints, Bolton Percy, N Yorkshire.

Photo: James Davies

Church of All Saints, Bolton Percy, North Yorkshire

Address

Church of All Saints, Main Street, Bolton Percy, North Yorkshire, YO23 7AQ

Recommended by

Andrew Moor (10)

Highlight

Millennium window

Artist, maker and date

Tom Denny, 2000

Reason for highlighting

A classic Tom Denny window on the theme of a river, with bold, but subtle use of colour that makes an immediate impact, and then draws you in to see the fine detail.

Other comments

There are many other interesting features in the church, some details of which are on the All Saints, Bolton Percy website. Of particular note are 8 fine medieval angels at the top of north and south windows in the Sanctuary.

There is an interesting article on the east window in issue 32 of Vidimus, the on-line stained glass magazine.

Artist/maker notes

Tom Denny (b. 1956) is one of the most distinguished of contemporary artists, whose work can be found in cathedrals and churches throughout Britain. He studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art and exhibited in London and New York, before concentrating on stained glass. He works with materials and techniques that are largely the same as those used in the fourteenth century, along with the nineteenth century technique of acid etching flashed glass. This, he believes, helps to incorporate his windows in their settings. He notes that the “treatment of imagery can be very different, but colour, texture and the intransigence of lead and glass all make connections with what is already there, whether it is other stained glass, or the forms and surfaces of surrounding architecture and artefacts. Stained glass must be interesting and beautiful in its own right, but it must always acknowledge its context.”

Source : Tom Denny website

Highlighted dates at this location

15th century, 2000 (Go to date search)