Chris Fiddes and Nicholas Bechgaard, Ruby Wedding window (1997), Church of St Nicholas, Potterspury, Northamptonshire.

Photo: Jane Brocket

Chris Fiddes and Nicholas Bechgaard, detail of Ruby Wedding window (1997), Church of St Nicholas, Potterspury, Northamptonshire.

Photo: Jane Brocket

Church of St Nicholas, Potterspury, Northamptonshire

Address

Church of St Nicholas, Church Lane, Potterspury, Northamptonshire NN12 7PU

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Jane Brocket (10)

Highlight

Ruby Wedding window

Artist, maker and date

Reason for highlighting

Dedicated by the donors to the ‘skill and dedication of all craftsmen’, the window depicts a carpenter, a bricklayer and two masons in contemporary dress with plenty of clever and often amusing detail.

Other comments

For the Millennium, Fiddes and Bechgaard made a second window, an exuberant, colourful and characterful interpretation of the Nativity.

Also noteworthy, from a different era, is excellent, vividly detailed stained glass by C.E. Moore (1920 and 1951).

Artist/maker notes

Christopher John Ellis Fiddes (b.1934) is a Northamptonshire born artist and designer of stained glass windows, whose work has championed both social and local causes.

Further information: Christopher Fiddes on Wikipedia

Nicholas Bechgaard (b.1948) studied Fine Art at Hornsey College of Art and then spent another four years working in London as a painter and photographer. He then travelled widely, while adding stained glass to his portfolio. Since 2002 he has concentrated solely on photo-based painting.

Source and further information: Website of Nicholas Bechgaard

Highlighted dates at this location

1920, 1951, 1997 (Go to date search)