Church of St Peter & St Paul, Foxearth, Essex
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Church of St Peter & St Paul, The Street, Foxearth, Sudbury, CO10 7FFRecommended by
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Near complete glazing scheme throughout church by ClutterbuckArtist, maker and date
Charles Clutterbuck c.1846 – c.1858Reason for highlighting
A small village church where the High Church rector from 1845 to 1892, Revd John Foster, funded much work on the fabric of the church. This included the glazing of most of the windows with stained glass supplied by Charles Clutterbuck, the exception being the west window of c.1860 by Hardman & Co.
The stained glass here could be described as a mixture of 18th century painterly style with elements of the Gothic Revival. The contrast to the stained glass incorporating the use of new coloured glass, a few miles to the south east at St John the Evangelist, Highwoods, Colchester, made by Heaton, Butler & Bayne in the early 1860s could not be more striking,.
Although Clutterbuck was based at Stratford, formerly in Essex but now in the London Borough of Newham, his glass is comparatively rare in Essex. Furthermore, it is unusual to see so much glass from the mid 1840’s to the mid 1850’s in one location. I particularly like some of the small panels in two south nave windows which show a charming naivety in their composition.
Artist/maker notes
Charles Edmund Clutterbuck (1806-1861) began his career as a painter of miniatures and began making stained glass from 1836. He was based at Stratford and upon his death his son Charles Edmund Clutterbuck Jnr carried on the business until 1882
Sources:
Victorian Stained Glass by Martin Harrison (Barrie & Jenkins Ltd 1980)
Charles Edmund Clutterbuck on Wikipedia
Other comments
The west tower of the church is by Henry Woodyer (1816–1896) described by James Bettley as looking like a water tower.
Further reading:The Buildings of England, Essex by James Bettley and Nikolas Pevsner (Yale University Press, 2007)