Douglas Strachan, east window (1938), Church of st Oswald, Hotham, East Riding of Yorkshire. | Photo: Peter Hildebrand
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Douglas Strachan, east window (1938), Church of st Oswald, Hotham, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Photo: Peter Hildebrand
Douglas Strachan, north west window (1938-43), Church of st Oswald, Hotham, East Riding of Yorkshire. | Photo: Peter Hildebrand
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Douglas Strachan, north west window (1938-43), Church of st Oswald, Hotham, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Photo: Peter Hildebrand

Church of St Oswald, Hotham, East Riding of Yorkshire

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Church of Saint Oswald, Hotham, East Yorkshire YO43 4UF
Recommended by
Phil Thomas (10)
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Six windows in the Nave and Chancel
Artist, maker and date
Designed by Douglas Strachan and executed by James Scullion, 1938-43
Reason for highlighting

These six windows, by the great 20th century Scottish artist Douglas Strachan, form one of his least-known commissions. Grandly and formally composed, hieratic, handsomely coloured and magnificently drawn and painted, they are now something of a period-piece, but wonderfully rewarding down to the smallest details. There are other works by Strachan at East Rounton and nearby North Cave, both in Yorkshire.

Artist/maker notes

Robert Douglas Strachan (1875-1950) was born in Aberdeen and initially trained as an artist. Indeed Strachan admitted later in life that he had been slow to realise that stained glass would be the best outlet for his artistic vision. It was a vision that enabled him to become the foremost British stained glass artists of the generation after Christopher Whall.

Sources:
In Praise of Douglas Strachan by Peter Cormack, Journal of Stained Glass, Vol. XXX, 2006
Arts & Crafts Stained Glass by Peter Cormack (Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2015)
ECA Glass Alumni Exhibition Catalogue, pages 11-12

Highlighted dates at this location
1938-41 (Go to date search)
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