Image: Killinghall Church 764

Description: Stained glass in Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall, North Yorkshire, England. Church completed in 1880, by architect William Swinden Barber. The four-light east window was supplied in 1880 by Cox & Son. The subject and some details may have been chosen by the benefactor and the Church, but the design would have been commissioned by the architect. The windows would have been the most expensive part of this building's original cost of £4,000. Thomas Strother, who paid for this window, dedicated it to his wife or mother, and died while the church was in process of construction. The design of the central two lights is based on John 20:24-29, the story of Doubting Thomas. In this image, Thomas (shown kneeling at bottom of second light from left) has finally seen the Resurrection and checked the wounds, and he now believes in it. The top part of the window consists of three rose lights, containing symbols. The left symbol is the Paschal Lamb, a heraldic symbol in which the Lamb of God carries the cross of St George. The right-hand rose shows a pelican vulning, a heraldic symbol (a crest in this case) of a self-sacrificing pelican feeding her young with the blood from her breast, symbolising the Passion. This medieval symbol was superseded by the Lamb and Flag. The image in the uppermost rose shows the intertwined Alpha-Omega, representing the beginning and the end - a symbol of Jesus. The bottom part of the two central lights is obscured by the screen behind the altar.
Title: Killinghall Church 764
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