Designed and made by Thomas Willement (1786-1871).
Part of the east window, Holy Trinity, Carlisle.
The long career of Thomas Willement spanned the pictorial traditions of the 18th century through to the medieval experiments of the Gothic Revival. Willement made his first window in 1812 and his early work was all heraldic; he was heraldic artist to George IV. He was later to become artist in stained glass to Queen Victoria. He was perhaps the most significant of the group of stained glass craftsmen working in the 1830s and 1840s who were preparing the ground for the Gothic Revival immediately before Pugin, for whom Willement worked up to 1842. He had a workshop at Green St, Grosvenor Square, from which he retired in 1865, to be succeeded by Henry Hughes.
This panel shows Willement's developing medievalism and confidence in handling a figural scene, in contrast to his earlier more painterly single figures under architectural canopies.
Inv. No. 1980/15/2 Presented by the Diocese of Carlisle.