Vanderpoel Window in The Vanderpoel Window in Trinity Church was
part of a donation by the Vanderpoel family to the church in
1874 and is said to represent the first stained glass window
commission undertaken by the William Morris company for an
American client. The window includes designs by Edward Burne-
Jones, Ford Madox Brown and William Morris. The window comprises
a central rectangle depicting the Crucifixion with Mary and St
John standing on either side. This is surrounded by 14 smaller
rectangular panels, 6 depicting New Testament scenes and 8
containing images of angels carrying scrolls bearing latin
inscriptions. The central rectangular panel depicts Christ on
the cross with the Virgin on the left, looking up, and St John
on the right, looking down; all against a vine-patterned
background. A. C. Sewter records this design as being based on
that which was originally used in St Edmund Hall Chapel, Oxford,
in 1865 but I believe that the figure of Christ design was taken
from a cartoon by Burne-Jones whi